Distributed energy nerd | Anti-monopoly policy guy @ ILSR | Making clean power local + fair | 📍Minnesota dad energy 🔌💡
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John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth.
Massie alleges that Hegseth has waged the war against Iran illegally, among other "high crimes and misdemeanors."
He is also asserting that Hegseth initiated the conflict unlawfully, defied Congress' order to withdraw from the conflict, and incurred unnecessary civilian casualties.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved.
Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.*
Details in today's newsletter: climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Energy-guzzling data centers are causing polluting, costly, and unreliable coal plants to stay open.
Here are five examples from Indiana showing how continued operations at coal plants are related to data centers.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Walmart, Albertsons, and 7-Eleven used AI software to raise gas prices. Just how much tech-enabled price-fixing is hidden across the economy? Good news is that California has a new law on pricing algorithms & now a class-action antitrust case is moving.
popular.info/p/gas-stations-…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
NextEra hometown newspaper ed board, (basically): “Trust us Virginia: don’t let this company anywhere near your electricity customers.”
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
You’ve heard of monopolies, but what about megamonopolies? Get ready, because that’s what could happen if NextEra gets approval to acquire Dominion Energy, whose CEOs are some of the highest paid in the industry. Now their customers could pay the price. bit.ly/4tIwyj3
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
I can't figure out if vaccines work or not.
Tough one.
Need Sherlock Holmes on this one.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Watch me do a job interview with the worst person ever and learn how noncompete agreements are trapping 30 million Americans in jobs they can't leave.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
I’ve been waiting for someone to write up California’s “mystery” gas tax.
It’s not a mystery. It’s consolidation and vertical integration.
State lawmakers have several options, including forcing refineries to divest their retail gas stations. That should be a bill next session.
In this week’s Aftermath newsletter, we take a closer look at high gas prices in California—which are not only caused by the war in Iran. buff.ly/GNiknPP
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
JetBlue is saying the quiet part outloud - they’re spying on you and using it to charge higher prices to get to a funeral!
👇👇THIS is exactly why #mnleg must pass my ban on surveillance pricing - @mnhousegop just needs to stop blocking the bill so we can pass it this year!👇
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Because Californians have no other choice for their electricity, executives can reward themselves with massive payouts even when their outdated infrastructure fails and causes tragedies.
It's time to break up these monopolies.
latimes.com/business/story/2…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
How solar and batteries help keep lights on during Texas winter storms @CanaryMediaInc canarymedia.com/articles/sol…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
It baffles me why more 2028 contenders aren’t echoing Senator Gallego. Pledge now to break up all these corrupt mergers. Suddenly boardrooms have to contemplate a 50/50 chance they’ll be mired in litigation for years to come.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
They buried the lede: PA's extreme reliance on gas has increased our electric bills.
For 2025, PA remains #1 state for electricity exports. Data show that non-generation costs causing significant price pressures. See: ifo.state.pa.us/Resources/Do…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
A key passage from @jeffsaintjohn's latest on Xcel's DCP proposal in Minnesota. Very strong words from @AGEllison's office.
Minnesota utility Xcel Energy says it can build more effective virtual power plants by owning and controlling its own batteries. But solar groups, consumer advocates and state agencies think customer solar and batteries can do the job faster and cheaper:
canarymedia.com/articles/vir…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.
📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Continuing coverage: startribune.com/ice-raids-mi…
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
1. New York’s affordability crisis flows from a deeper problem: essential systems — groceries, energy, Internet, banking, healthcare — have consolidated in the hands of distant corporations. Today, ILSR sent the Mamdani team a memo laying out policies to reclaim local control.
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
Thx to @johnffarrell @ilsr 4 chance to chat on how #DistributedPowerPlants Banish Blackouts In PuertoRico🇵🇷.
Listen to Episode 251 of #LocalEnergyRules to learn how #DPPs help everyday people save their own lives & also keep the lights on for all!
ilsr.org/article/energy-demo… #VPP
John Farrell ☀️🌬🔋 retweeted
ProPublica is hiring a reporter to join our amazing investigative unit with The Texas Tribune. APPLY HERE ➡️ propub.li/4qvyjzw
