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New York will replace gas pipelines to pump clean heat into buildings (www.canarymedia.com)

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This kind of district heating is much more common in Europe, and fairly uncommon in the US

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Electric and gas utilities in most of the US are private for-profit enterprises subject to state regulation. There is a patchwork of municipal utilities as well, but they're a much smaller part of it. Some areas have fairly extreme examples of regulatory capture, where the regulators are more or less working for the for-profit utilities.

Water utilities are mostly municipal, though a few are privately owned.