This is gonna take vision, courage, smarts, and lots of listening. But public power could leap-frog the problems of IOUs and succeed wildly! Public power utilities face growing risk from renewables shift, says Moody's https://www.utilitydive.com/news/public-power-utilities-face-growing-risk-from-renewables-shift-says-moody/523808/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Issue:%202018-05-18%20Utility%20Dive%20Newsletter%20%5Bissue:15394%5D&utm_term=Utility%20Dive … via @UtilityDive
Stranded asset risk is very high for retail gas utilities. Conversion from furnaces to heat pumps will reduce gas use for heating and retirement of gas assets before they are fully depreciated. We need a managed de-capitalization of the gas utilities.
