Public Energy Systems

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Platform - Green Party US
  Section III. Ecological Sustainability
        A. Climate Change
              Declare a Climate Emergency

The key policies and programs in this program should include the following:

Public Energy System

Socialize all power generation and distribution utilities and private energy corporations into a public energy system in order to rapidly implement the transition to 100% clean energy generation and distribution.

The public energy system will operate at cost for public benefit rather than cost-plus-profit for owners.

For-profit private utilities will not build the smart grid necessary to incorporate the distributed nature of renewables and to implement energy conservation and efficiency in energy use because the private utilities are more profitable continuing to use the servo-mechanical grid based on centralized power plants.

The public energy system should be governed from the bottom-up by a decentralized federation of elected local/regional public energy districts that in turn elect state and federal boards for state and federal coordination.