Fair Rates Alliance

12/08/2025

When reliability gets threatened, utilities file emergency rate cases, and and you get the bill. There's a better way to handle this.

12/03/2025

Emergency orders to prevent coal plant closures are already being issued in Michigan and Pennsylvania. More are coming.

Indiana businesses: are you prepared?

Connect with us on an upcoming webinar to find out your readiness.

The only professional advocacy organization in the country effectively fighting and winning for commercial electric ratepayers

12/02/2025

This Wall Street Journal visualization shows something critical: data centers cluster where transmission infrastructure is strongest. Notice the concentration in Virginia, Texas, and the Southwest. Those aren't random locations… they're strategic choices based on power availability and cost. But here's the hidden story: when data centers concentrate in specific regions, they create localized demand spikes that stress transmission systems, driving congestion and higher wholesale prices. Those higher costs then spread regionally through interconnected markets.

Read about transmission congestion and wholesale price impacts:
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/whats-happening-to-wholesale-electricity

11/24/2025

8.1 gigawatts of coal capacity is scheduled for retirement this year… roughly 5% of America's coal fleet going offline. In a stable grid with excess capacity, this wouldn't matter much. But we don't have a stable grid anymore. We have critical capacity levels in most regions. So instead of celebrating cleaner energy, the federal government is issuing emergency orders to keep these plants running. The irony? Plants that were being retired for environmental and economic reasons are now essential for grid stability. And when "temporary" emergency measures become permanent operating procedure, ratepayers end up funding both the old infrastructure and the new infrastructure simultaneously.

CTA: Register for our weekly webinar to learn what this means for Indiana businesses:

The only professional advocacy organization in the country effectively fighting and winning for commercial electric ratepayers

11/19/2025

Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently told Congress that America's power situation "keeps him up at night." That's not political rhetoric. Goldman Sachs analysts are now warning about "price spikes and blackouts" as the most likely outcomes if nothing changes. The problem is simple math: demand is surging from data centers and industrial reshoring, while supply is constrained by plant retirements and transmission bottlenecks.

Grid operators have three options: build new generation
(expensive), implement demand response programs (disruptive), or let prices spike until demand naturally decreases (painful). All three options mean higher costs for ratepayers.

The question is: who bears the burden?

Comment "GRID" if you want to understand how commercial customers can influence these decisions.

11/17/2025

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the power situation "keeps him up at night." If it keeps him up, should it keep you up too? Register for our webinar:

The only professional advocacy organization in the country effectively fighting and winning for commercial electric ratepayers

11/11/2025

This Apollo Global Management chart shows the trajectory everyone should be watching: data center energy demand more than doubling as a share of total U.S. power consumption by 2030. Notice the acceleration curve. It's not linear growth, it's exponential. Each percentage point increase represents billions in new infrastructure investment that gets funded through utility rate cases. The question every business owner should ask: who's paying for that infrastructure buildout?

Read the detailed breakdown of data center cost impacts:
https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/how-data-centers-are-driving-up-your

11/03/2025

8.1 gigawatts of coal power capacity retiring this year; that's 5% of the entire U.S. fleet going offline. Who pays when supply tightens? DM us to find out.

10/31/2025

The White House is using emergency orders to keep coal plants from closing. Why? The grid can't handle what's coming.

Join our next webinar to see how this affects your business:

The only professional advocacy organization in the country effectively fighting and winning for commercial electric ratepayers

10/30/2025

Here's what "critical capacity" actually means: Nine out of thirteen U.S. regional power grids now operate at or below the reliability threshold that grid operators consider safe. This isn't a future scenario; it's today's reality. When spare capacity disappears, you get two outcomes: blackouts during peak demand, or emergency rate increases to build new generation fast. Either way, someone pays. The White House is already using emergency orders to prevent coal plant retirements because losing that capacity would push grids past the breaking point. For Indiana businesses, this means rate volatility ahead unless commercial customers have representation when utilities file for cost recovery.

CTA: Join our webinar to understand how this affects Indiana commercial ratepayers:

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