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Johnny Kampis As government officials discuss the affordability of broadband, some regulators are helping contribute to the problem by implementing sky-high pole attachment fees, the cost of which tend to be passed onto the end consumer. What are pole attachment fees? When an internet provider wants to access a pole owned by someone else – such as AT&T wanting to put its equipment on a pole owned by the local power provider – it has to pay a fee to gain that access. This has been standard operating procedure for many years. A recent piece in the New Yorker discussing how the Biden adminis...

This is an op-ed by Tim Echols, a member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, an elected body that regulates the state's telecommunications, electric and natural gas providers. When I was the lone grandchild of my paternal grandmother, I was her hobby — and that included her teaching me sewing skills. The old expression "a stitch in time saves nine" came from that era and simply means to fix problems when they are small to avoid larger problems in the future. Believe it or not, the adage applies to the energy world too, and is on full display in Texas now. But could this happen in Geor...

This article was originally published on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. With electric vehicle (EV) sales booming across the US in […]

Analysis Analysis Based on factual reporting, although it incorporates the expertise of the author/producer and may offer interpretations and conclusions. Strengthening Communities and Shifting Power in Pursuit of a Just Transition 2019 cohort from the Just Energy Academy. Cosco Jones, a sustainability consultant, is pictured third from the left, second row. Photo from Partnership for Southern Equity How two grassroots, BIPOC-led coalitions are helping to democratize the climate justice space. Feb 10, 2021 Cosco Jones is all about making good trouble. For this sustainability consultant, that...

Share it Utilities' ability to protect reliability in today's rapid transition to variable, distributed generation faces two key barriers and regulators' help is needed to overcome them. Advanced demand response (DR) can use the flexibility of customer-owned technologies to meet the balancing challenges of the changing supply mix, regulators and utility executives agreed during an Oct. 20 symposium hosted by The Brattle Group. Utility pilots are revealing what works, but also showing how technology and incentive structures are keeping flexible loads, such as customer-owned solar and smart...