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The Electric Bill Election

David Dayen The American Prospect
On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.

Time To Blow Up Electricity Markets

Yanis Varoufakis Project Syndicate
The European Union’s power sector is an example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks. With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the price for their governments’ embrace of a shoddy theory.

Israel’s Crimes Must Be Met With Arms Embargo

Maureen Clare Murphy Electronic Intifada
Palestinian children sitting in the dark due to power outage The complicity of Western governments such as the US, UK and the European Union allows Israel’s “crimes against a captive civilian population” in Gaza to proceed with impunity.

Why Tesla Is Building City-Sized Batteries

Giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere, but they are only one of the zanier forms of energy storage already in use around the country.

Catching a Breeze

Derrick Z. Jackson The American Prospect
America's belated push to develop offshore wind energy
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