Electric Life - Utility Regulation and the Fight for Energy Democracy

How workers and customers engage utility regulation to act on climate change, energy affordability, and environmental, racial, and economic injustice. Contemporary organizing for energy democracy questions how the utility and the systems that govern it need to change to ensure energy affordability, provide remedy and reparation for enduring environmental and energy injustice, and build a just and equitable energy transition from fossil fuels. Bridging urban, environmental, and labor studies, the author demonstrates how these demands to change the utility emerge from the tradition of civil rights, labor, and environmental organizing for fair treatment from the utility, affordable energy, protection from pollution, and good jobs.

Product details

• Authors: Nikki Luke, Luke Nikki
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.03.2026
• EAN: 9780262051972
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05197-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
• Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Electrical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Electrical Engineering, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Central / national / federal government policies, Energy resources, Central government policies, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Power generation & distribution