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A People’s History of Utilities

This brief timeline tries to put the different institutions and infrastructure that makes up our energy system today within the context of political and power struggles. How our energy system runs or is governed is not a given. It is the product of over one hundred years of political struggle.

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Author(s): Yesenia Rivera, Johana Bozuwa, Nora Elmarzouky, Shana Potter, Crystal Huang, Gail Francis, Timothy Den Herder Thomas, Shiva Patel, Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, Jessica Tovar, Subin DeVar
Organization: The Energy Democracy Project
Date: 4/22/22
Resource Type: Publication
Topic: History
Source URL: https://emeraldcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/FINAL-Peoples-History-of-Utilities-1.pdf

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