A new 501c6 organization, Pinellas Energy Alliance, was established in October about a week after the Clearwater City Council voted to move forward with an appraisal of the electric grid, the next step toward Dumping Duke for publicly owned power. Now we've seen a huge propaganda push from two groups, Clearwater Energy Alliance and St. Pete Energy Alliance.
The incorporator on record is a manager at Duke Energy.
The registered agent is the same one used for Duke Energy Florida.
If we look at similar fights for public power, we can prepare for Duke to pull out all the stops and spend a LOT of OUR money. In California, investor-owned utilities (IOU) spent more than $2.7 million to stop municipalization efforts and in Maine two IOUs spent $40 million!
These companies spend BIG to protect their profits, and then they charge US for it.
City officials need to hear from regular people, NOT people that are paid or lied to by Duke Energy.