Y'all are going right into the middle of the park.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I guess to start off with, you know, we are one treating this as an opportunity for people who are just frustrated with the crushing cost of living, the crushing cost of utility bills, people with utility arrears, debt callers collecting to tried to get those last utility payments.

And we want to treat it as a space for people to come voice that outrage.

We're also treating it as an opportunity to organize too.

As any good organizer will tell you, an organizing conversation should be maybe 30% speaking and 70% listening.

So we're going to treat it as an opportunity to speak to people a little bit, tell them a little bit how the energy system works, give them some background around why energy prices keep going up year after year.

Yeah, so Alex, could you just speak a little bit about why utility bills keep going up every year? And yeah, just like what is your sort of perspective on that?

Y'all are going right into the middle of the park.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I guess to start off with, you know, we are one treating this as an opportunity for people who are just frustrated with the crushing cost of living, the crushing cost of utility bills, people with utility arrears, debt callers collecting to you know, tried to get, you know, those last utility payments.

And, you know, we want to treat it as a space for people to come voice that outrage.

You know, we're also treating it as an opportunity to organize, too.

You know, as any good organizer will tell you, you know, an organizing conversation should be maybe 30% speaking and 70% listening.

So we're going to treat it as an opportunity to speak to people a little bit, tell them a little bit how the energy system works, give them some background around why energy prices keep going up year after year.

Yeah, so Alex, could you just speak a little bit about why utility bills keep going up every year? And yeah, just like what is your sort of perspective on that?

You know, how is that effort to try to expand NYPA's commitment to build public power going to play out in the next session.

yeah so i think um we are going to see an increasing amount of pressure uh certainly from the legislature but uh continued from the thousands and thousands of people who've uh participated in nipa's public comment process um and who sent you know emails to their legislators this session uh emails calls uh all of it went up to albany and and met with their legislators You know, to ask them to invest in these projects.

Right now, currently, the NYPA plan sits at 5.5 gigawatts.

And, you know, they have said on the record multiple times that the increasing in funding from Albany has led them to expand further.

And we're hopeful that the $100 million we won this year can contribute to them expanding their plan even more.

We know that this summer, they do plan to update and revise that plan, and that they've considered up to doubling what they currently have planned.

So getting closer to 10 gigawatts.

But, you know, what might be some of their public power pushes they might try at the federal level?

How is that effort to try to expand NYPA's commitment to build public power going to play out in the next session.

yeah so i think um we are going to see an increasing amount of pressure uh certainly from the legislature but uh continued from the thousands and thousands of people who've uh participated in nypa's public comment process um and who sent you know emails to their legislators this session uh emails calls uh all of it went up to albany and and met with their legislators um you know to ask them to to invest in these projects um right now currently the NYPA plan sits at 5.5 gigawatts um and you know they have said on the record multiple times that that the increasing and funding from Albany has led them to expand And we're hopeful that the $100 million we won this year can contribute to them expanding their plan even more.

We know that this summer, they do plan to update and revise that plan, and that they've considered up to doubling what they currently have planned.

So getting closer to 10 gigawatts.

But, you know, what is needed is certainly the 15 gigawatts that we've been calling for.

And we're excited to potentially work with this new expanded socialist block in Albany to perhaps deliver a mandate for them to build that in the coming session.

Do Congress, both of them, are public power champions? You know, Congress, unfortunately, doesn't get much done in the last few decades, but, you know, what might be some of their public power pushes they might try at the federal level?

Yeah, so we are very excited that Daria-Liza and Claire are going to be headed to Washington.