Positive Future #519 (Feature photo – New York – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license – Siddarth Hanumanthu)
EnergyCentral journalist Matt Chester touches on a topic with explosive potential to change the financial and economic world. New York City, after two power blackouts in eight days that left thousands in the dark, is considering a move to have energy generation become a municipally-owned enterprise.
The ramifications are huge as more projects from food to energy are opting for a public capital approach as opposed to a private capital approach.
The long-term ramifications are that public capital projects carry the potential to create more jobs, provide better service and lower the cost of service.
You can read the story here:
https://www.energycentral.com/c/gr/new-york-latest-us-city-weighing-locally-run-power
