John Farrell
@johnffarrell
Distributed energy nerd | Anti-monopoly policy guy @ ILSR | Making clean power local + fair | 📍Minnesota dad energy 🔌💡
Calvin Butler, Exelon's CEO, only used half his $300K personal jet allowance last year. Like other utility CEOs, he knows what it's like to cut back. vist.ly/553fv
Trump vanity projects like the ballroom and reflecting pool will cost hundreds of millions (even billions) of dollars, but Obama once wore a tan suit and Biden was old.
The CES targets utilities, not independent producers. Here's the statutory language of who that includes: www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/202...
It turns out that *state-level* Democrats do know how to bring a knife to a knife fight.
Shout out from Comm. Sullivan to ILSR, Cooperative Energy Futures, and allies for illustrating how he hoped that battery benefits would materialize. h/t Will Kenworthy @votesolar.bsky.social
A reminder that while it's no longer shocking, it's still extraordinary and anti-democratic for a U.S. president to regularly call his political opposition "thugs"
Worth noting that a Colorado Xcel customer with a $100 monthly bill pays about $142 extra per year just to cover Xcel Energy's excessive regulator-set profit margin: ilsr.org/energy/utili...
Solar is freedom. You can interfere with 20% of global oil supply with just a few drones in the Strait of Hormuz. Conversely, it would take 12 Greenlands in space to block 20% of of the world's solar energy.
Here's a four-image summary of the stunning level of corruption documented by @nationalreview.bsky.social in Trump's use of the presidency to profit from crypto
When Trump says he's "searched the depth of the legal arguments" is that like when he stared into the sun during an eclipse?
Love these valentines to my utility, from Energy Equity Project! vist.ly/4rhu8
How it started. How it's going. The only way Trump and the GOP can fend off the coming electoral landslide defeat is to cheat.
Senators: Object to everything until Kristi Noem is impeached. Object to everything until Greg Bovino is fired. Your inaction normalizes ICE behavior. You are complicit!
One week after ICE murdered Renee Good, on a single day, eight items passed through the U.S. Senate with unanimous consent. If your senator is begging a Republican to do the right thing, maybe ask why they're letting ordinary business proceed in this extraordinary time. h/t @senategabe.bsky.social
An abnormal number of people parking at the MSP airport today…promising for the #ICEout protest!
Faster, cheaper, and yet higher wages. We need an all-out effort to make rooftop #solar as inexpensive in the U.S. as it is in Australia! h/t to Saul Griffith via the @volts.wtf podcast
Happy fifth anniversary to the worst assault on American democracy since the Civil War (before Trump's 2nd term, at least).
Terrific, in-depth coverage of how U.S. utility companies systematically overcharge customers to pad their profits, and the failure of the regulatory system to stop them - h/t @nickbowlin.bsky.social for @harpers.bsky.social