Widespread power outages sparks renewed interest in switching to public power in Ann Arbor

The recent widespread power outages have sparked a renewed interest in switching to public power. The Ann Arbor for Public Power campaign held a virtual town hall Thursday, where more than 80 people signed on to learn about the potential change. The coalition is pushing to ditch DTE Energy, an investor-owned utility company, and create its own municipal electric utility.

[firbhamming]

The people are right for this
No one should profit from an essential service

[Chroogomphus]

If we weren't so short sighted we would run cable underground. Cheaper in the long run and looks way better too.

[stanleysnowmonkey]

Those cities and counties are really going to figure out how they are going to pay for the switch vs a city like wyandotte that had city fathers that had the foresight to plan and layout the foundation for their own power and water system and city leadership that followed that keep it city owned but also made improvements to make the system work well and saw new technology and grabbed it and ran with from it own cable service to now with top of the line improvements can go toe to toe with anyone's internet that out there and don't have to worry about making a profit for stockholders because the citizens are the stockholders and they benefit from a well run and maintain systems and rewards are lower rates than the big for profit utilities companies. And that's why wyandotte is more than just a little dot on the map

[Lk-bzvh]

Dte only wants to give people $35 dollars…

[TexasTater]

Lets take a problem and hand it off to the government to fix. Good luck with that.