Electric utilities don’t make money from selling power to customers, but instead profit from investments in power plants, wires, substations and other equipment.
- Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of South Carolina
The government directed data centers to turn on backup generation in parts of the US. Expanding distributed generation could improve grid resilience.
Nearly a quarter of US households struggle to pay their energy bills at the same time as America’s social safety nets, including home heat aid, are disappearing.
The problem of high energy prices and rising numbers of people unable to afford them isn’t lost on the Trump administration.
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