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Southern California's Blackout Season: What SCE Collects for the Grid and Where It Goes
As Southern California Edison cuts power to prevent wildfires, the utility is urging conservation while facing questions about how it has spent decades of maintenance funding. The audit trail of what SCE collected for grid upkeep versus what it actually spent, and where the cash went instead, remains largely unexplored in regulatory filings.
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how they take your power
Southern California's Blackout Season: What SCE Collects for the Grid and Where It GoesThe Data Center Load Forecast Weapon: How Utilities Are Burying Ratepayers in Unbuilt Capacity More from the desk →Sovereignty Desk
how you take it back
Curaçao's VPP Taskforce: Who Captures the Grid Value When Households Become Power PlantsUtility Scale Solar is Booming in Texas, But Residential Ratepayers Still Pay 3x the Grid Price More from the desk →Commons Desk
power together, and what's at stake
Afghanistan Chases Hydropower Imports While Its Own Grid Stays FragmentedSpain's Missing Blackout Plan: How the EU Enforces Grid Resilience, and Why the US Doesn't More from the desk → Around the world How others do it →
InfoCommons DeskAfghanistan Chases Hydropower Imports While Its Own Grid Stays FragmentedAfghanistan's state utility has negotiated increased electricity imports from Tajikistan, including plans for a 500-kilovolt transmission line. The deal exposes a critical gap: Afghanistan remains dependent on neighboring hydropower while its own generation capacity and grid governance remain fractured under Taliban rule.Amara Diallo
2 weeks agoAfghanistanConcernCommons DeskSpain's Missing Blackout Plan: How the EU Enforces Grid Resilience, and Why the US Doesn'tThe European Commission opened infringement proceedings against Spain for failing to file a mandatory electricity risk-preparedness plan, revealing how EU member states must document crisis response while the US relies on voluntary utility compliance. The enforcement gap exposes a choice: regulation by requirement or by trust.Amara Diallo
2 weeks agoSpainConcernCommons DeskRomania's Digital Substation Pilot: Who Decides Grid Upgrades, and What Do They Cost?Romania's state transmission company Transelectrica has signed a 476 million RON (about 90.44 million EUR / approximately $98 million USD) contract to digitalize the Alba Iulia substation as a pilot for its grid modernization strategy, raising questions about cost allocation, necessity testing, and whether competing alternatives were evaluated before the spend was locked in.Wade Kowalski
2 weeks agoRomaniaConcernCommons DeskMalaysia's Automatic Fuel Adjustment hits sixth straight month of surcharges; January threatens 7.59 sen/kWh as subsidies endMalaysia's TNB electricity tariff added a 3.61 sen/kWh surcharge in October 2026, the sixth consecutive month of positive AFA adjustments, with forecasts showing a spike to 7.59 sen/kWh in January when temporary subsidies expire and the protected consumption threshold drops from 800 kWh to 600 kWh per month.Amara Diallo
2 weeks agoMalaysia