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Allowing this abuse of power threatens grid reliability, affordable electricity and our democracy. More than 1 in 4 Hawaiian households have spent their own money to add electricity capacity, reducing the island state's reliance on imported fuel oil.Įverywhere these entrepreneurs turn, however, they're being blocked by the incumbent utility that wields its monopoly platform as a weapon. Community solar developers in Minnesota have installed over 800 megawatts of solar projects that are reducing energy bills for over 12,000 households and hundreds of businesses. OhmConnect, Tesla, and other companies are providing hundreds of megawatts of electricity capacity, forestalling rolling blackouts in California. Numerous companies and homeowners are proving the upside of broadening grid access. Regulators shouldn't just let them through this opening, they should take the door off its hinges. Solar company Sunnova wants to give new homeowners an alternative to electric utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric, cracking open the door to competition with a combination of solar and batteries in a 'microgrid.' The proposal would end nearly a century of guaranteed monopoly for California utilities by letting other companies not just sell power but use an alternative delivery system to the utility's platform. The following is a contributed article by John Farrell, a co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and director of the Energy Democracy Initiative.

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