Why Taking Over Utilities Won’t Deliver Cheap Electricity

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Renewable energy sources not only disrupt business relationships due to their low prices and rapid deployment, but they might also disrupt political movements as well, specifically efforts on the part of local governments to take over investor-owned utilities (municipalization), most prominently, recently, in San Francisco, Tucson, and the lower Hudson Valley, NY. Proponents of municipalization hope to reduce electricity rates to local consumers. We believe that because of the advent of newer, cheaper renewable technologies, they are going about…

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Original article published by OilPrice.com on March 17, 2026.
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