Canadians lets get that maple syrup tunnel built yesterday

Checkers needs to be relegated, and Cookout called up. America will heal once everyone realizes you can get cheeseburger with a side of corn dog and quesadilla, plus a 32 ounce sweet tea for $8. Or upgrade to one of their 40 flavors of milkshakes for another $1

Duquesne Power and Light. Cleco. Puget Sound Energy

Agreed, it is a critical backbone that likely would have had significant outage implications for the area. One note, your summation to 1066 only represents voltage. Need to include current to get power capacity. Assuming 4000 amps = >4200 MW of delivery capacity

Also not suggesting public power is worse, just that the same criticisms and challenges with investor owned utilities applies to public power.

Public power isn't a panacea. There are plenty of examples of poor service (PREPA in Puerto Rico), high prices (LIPA), service restoration issues (Austin Energy 2023), and criminal misconduct (LADWP circa 2022; Jacksonville Electric 2018)

Service doesn't end if a utility goes bankrupt, they have a legal obligation to provide service in their franchise territory (e.g. PG&E continued to provide service during bankruptcy in 2019). Service may end up being degraded (e.g. longer restoration and service timelines), but service doesn't end

Yes. PG&E went into bankruptcy and some officers paid >$100 million to settle wildfire lawsuits against them www.cpmlegal.com/news-Former-....

Thanks for the back and forth and sorry for throwing all the info out there. It's an often overlooked and important part of our lives that is also kind of fascinating

Government/publicly owned utilities (LADWP, Austin Energy etc) are overseen by local government boards or city council. Rural electric co-ops have boards made up of customers/community members, and those boards sign off on co-op rules/tariffs.

That's a fair. The good news is most of the regulation occurs at the state or local level. State utility commissions oversee investor owned utilities (ConEd, PG&E, Duke etc). Commissioners are appointed or elected, and there are large career staff.

A key difference is electric transmission & distribution are highly regulated. There's lots of regulatory proceedings for line extension & rate rules to ensure fairness. Consumer advocates and any interested stakeholders can participate in those processes. That doesn't exist for oil/gas extraction

Could it be due to the 2015 amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard program?

Utilities typically require data centers pay their full grid connection costs upfront, and increasingly require minimum bill/monthly payments for 5+ years to ensure other ratepayers don't pick up the tab. That includes security/collateral requirements if companies go belly up

Generally I don't think lines co-existing or crossing through other territories is an issue. It's an issue if they are trying to connect/provide service in the other's territory