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A “natural monopoly” is a service or product that gets cheaper as the market grows. Hempling says that the idea of a natural monopoly...
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A “natural monopoly” is a service or product that gets cheaper as the market grows. Hempling says that the idea of a natural monopoly...
In the pathway to 100% renewable energy lie electric utilities. Since the time of electrification until the 1990s, every electric utility was a monopoly...
Fed up with their electricity provider Alliant Energy, one of Iowa’s largest monopoly utilities, Decorah area residents decided to explore their options for pursuing...
What can a city do to advance clean energy locally, if its state commissioners and legislators are not willing to take their jobs regulating...
In most states with regulated, monopoly utilities, utilities are compensation based on two factors: energy sales and a return on capital spent, such as...
A wave of consolidation has swept across the U.S. economy over the past decade, reshaping already-powerful corporations into financial and political powerhouses. The trend...
Utility companies are undercutting state regulation with their legislative lobbyists. And utilities are also bringing their monopoly market power to bear in previously competitive...
Few people realize that the change from fossil fuels to renewable sources is just a harbinger for a phase of massive disruption in energy markets.
Circumventing a decades-old pact providing a market monopoly in exchange for public oversight, an investor-owned utility has proposed legislation to allow it to build...
The people of the United States didn't elect Donald Trump. Approximately 3 million more people voted for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, while approximately...
What happens when utility companies lose ground as their customers cut consumption and seek innovative technologies like rooftop solar? New business ventures to capture...