{"id":70493,"date":"2026-05-19T10:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-ee-news-by-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:49:00","slug":"how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-ee-news-by-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-ee-news-by-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics &#8211; E&amp;E News by POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisAFBVV95cUxPdHBkd0pXUlpVOU9TdkhNel9CRU0waDNIUW1uM0JCZWJicDM3bWk3LU1iaU1ULVlwZWtGeU9Ja0QyVmg1eFJ2U2kyRTU2OWlQem50ZDl3dl9UbksxNk41RTA2OFlfQ2plOWs1VjFRYlI5TmFEMVB2cTFTUTFlZkl0UkJQVW9BbmFQb3VpT0t0d1ZNZ3o1eTVibkYwM1JTSE44RUhOVWVmYUFqNVA5TXNaRQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">E&amp;E News by POLITICO<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics&nbsp;&nbsp;E&amp;E News by POLITICO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}