Leah Stokes’s book, Short Circuiting Policy, goes down what actually gets utilities to act: renewable portfolio standards, requiring them to generate a certain fraction of their energy via non-emitting sources. When the state public utilities commissions are given teeth to enforce those, they’re incredibly effective.
This is the most depressing point. Why would they. They will be long gone. Why risk their profits now. Fuck humanity I want mine now.
Leah Stokes’s book, Short Circuiting Policy, goes down what actually gets utilities to act: renewable portfolio standards, requiring them to generate a certain fraction of their energy via non-emitting sources. When the state public utilities commissions are given teeth to enforce those, they’re incredibly effective.
Nationalize and remove corruption. That does it too