Community
Tom Nogler, the late great!
By Bruce Wilkinson Tom Nogler passed away on Saturday, January 4th, died of a heart attack, and everyone who knew him was in shock, he was 66. While I’m deeply sad personally after knowing him […]
Research
JeffPUD victory over PSE!
In 2008 Jefferson County won their public power initiative and proceeded to take over from PSE. Three counties tried that year but only Jefferson County successfully liberated itself from PSE’s private monopoly control. Going from […]
PSE Watch
PSE jacks rates AGAIN!!
PSE asked the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) to increase rates on electricity by 6.9% this year after already getting a rate increase in 2018. Fortunately the UTC rejected their proposal. Instead they proposed […]
PSE Watch
PSE hates democracy & buys PUD Commissioner!
(In last week’s article, $656,158.84 + millions more, we wrote about how PSE spent millions against the Thurston Public Power Initiative. In this we show how they spend on PUD Commissioner races.) PSE’s hatred of […]
Research
Why the Public Should Own Our Electric Utilities
By Glen Anderson (Originally published in a downloadable document here. Reposted by permission of Glen Anderson.) The June 2019 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” explores the many benefits of having the public own our electric […]
PSE Watch
$656,158.84 + millions more
$656,158.84 was how much money PSE’s astroturf Orwellian “Alliance to Protect Thurston Power” spent in 2012 at sabotaging democracy in Thurston County. That figure comes from six power companies including PSE and one business lobby […]
Research
Feasibility Study
DHittle Report – Public Power Feasibility Study On August 31, 2012, the Thurston PUD received the preliminary business assessment from DHittle Associates. The assessment concluded that all three options for partial electrification (Yelm; Capitol Campus to Port; […]
PSE Watch
Taking back power!
An Australian Financial Conglomerate bought Puget Sound Energy in 2009 selling it to Alberta Investment Management Corporation, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, OMERS, and PGGM in 2018. Every year we suffer longer blackouts while our energy bills […]