John Farrell

Electric utilities recently admitted that they often misrepresent the cost of solar energy to serve their own profit interests.

Electric utilities recently admitted that they often misrepresent the cost of solar energy to serve their own profit interests.

Three Ways to Green the Grid Without New Transmission

This graphic explainer lays out how private utilities price-gouge their customers, then use their profits to gain political power.

Explore ILSR's report exposing investor-owned electric utilities as an abusive monopoly harming our communities, climate, and democracy.

Investor-owned electric utilities are an abusive platform monopoly harming our communities, climate, and democracy.

Interviews with solar installers show how inconsistent and resource-intensive local government permitting processes make it harder for Minnesotans to go solar.

A study found California's rooftop solar saved non-solar customers over $1 billion in 2024, rebutting the utility industry's "cost-shift" myth.

The Mamdani administration has a crucial opportunity to reverse New York City's affordability crisis; this ILSR policy memo suggests strategies to do so.

ILSR's 2-minute video explains how excessive profits for utility shareholders, also known as return on equity, drive up electric bills.