The Florida Legislature removed local control of Gainesvilles century-old municipal utility, but Commissioner Bryan Eastman explains how the city plans to take it back. |Show page available: https://ilsr.org/articles/public-power-ballot-florida-ler221/

Jani Hale and Liz Veazy from Solar United Neighbors explain how the Solar Help Desk aids consumers and how the group organizes people to fight for solar rights. |Show page available: https://ilsr.org/article/solar-help-desk-agenda-free-ler220/ |Listen

Shelley Welton discusses why utilities cannot be trusted to coordinate their electricity transmission plans and how an independent planning authority could step in where federal regulators have floundered. | Show page available: https://ilsr.org/articles

Toyah Callahan and Zach Greene discuss how the SolSmart technical assistance platform supports local governments as they streamline their solar permitting, inspection, and zoning processes, making it easier for residents to go solar. |Show page availabl

Tim Hade and Leah Stokes discuss how, through the coordination of a virtual power plant, distributed energy generation and storage will provide resilient and affordable electric power to a vulnerable area of Santa Barbara County. | Show page available: h

John Farrell summarizes ILSRs recent report, Upcharge: Hidden Costs of Electric Utility Monopoly Power, and makes the case for restoring competition to the electricity system. |Show page available: https://ilsr.org/how-monopoly-utilities-abuse-power-le

Doug Kantor discusses why the electric vehicle charging market must be competitive, rather than controlled by utilities, and why convenience stores are particularly suited to provide vehicle fueling wherever customers are. |Show page available: https://