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How fossil fuel companies keep your energy costs high | Jon Powers
Solar energy and storage are the fastest, cheapest ways to add electricity to the grid. So why are small towns across the US pausing or banning these projects? Clean energy entrepreneur Jon Powers shows how fossil fuel companies are waging disinformation campaigns at the local level — and calls for a rapid-response team that sends trusted messengers (like firefighters and farmers) to get communities straight answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Solar energy and storage are among the fastest, cheapest ways to add electricity to the grid,
and they account for most of the new power capacity being built in the U.S. Yet, a growing number of towns are pausing or even banning new projects, often driven by misinformation spreading at the local level. Energy entrepreneur John Powers has spent more than a decade building these kinds of projects,
and he set out to understand why this is happening and what it'll take to turn it around. If we're going to get building again, we need to get in the fight. We need to get coordinated, and we need to get hyper-local. In his talk, John argues that his industry needs to get much better
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