There’s a hearing tomorrow on the rewrite of the Communications Act proposed by House Commerce Commitee Chair Barton and Ranking member Dingell. Some friend of mine would like you to take action to let your elected representative know that you care about the provision in the bill that supports muni broadband.
More details here.
Stay tuned . . .
I have mixed feelings about whether utilities should be in the unregulated EV charging market using their monopoly powers. On the one hand the business model for public EV charging is non-existent. On the other hand you get utility capital projects like this boondoggle... https://twitter.com/EVAdoptionTweet/status/1440000616613376003
- $71,612 for 2 Level 2 chargers
- Used 4 times in 9 months
- Revenue: $7.42
- Total bill for electric service for the charging site during that period was $97.54 for a deficit of ($90.12)
- System wide uptime = 98%
Clearly we need 500,000 more EV chargers just like this. https://twitter.com/pluginsites/status/1439972430299209736
On nudges and climate change. (Note: These will hardly do all that needs to be done, but "Better is good," as former President Obama likes to say.) @BarackObama
https://www.ft.com/content/b6d36790-b171-417c-b593-b26900df3cd5
Time to get the succah up.
.@publicknowledge is one of 122 groups sending a letter to @SenatorCantwell & @SenatorWicker requesting that Congress pass a device voucher program. Even if they have access to broadband, more than 40% of low-income Americans do not own a computer, preventing them from connecting
.@publicknowledge's own @haroldfeld authored a full-length proposal for a #DigitalRegular decisive and agile enough to handle the rapidly appearing, innovative technologies springing up faster than the legislative process can accommodate. Check it out! https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/documents/Case_for_the_Digital_Platform_Act_Harold_Feld_2019.pdf
