{"id":70628,"date":"2026-05-19T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T14:30:37","slug":"how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/19\/how-a-power-megamerger-could-lower-bills-and-still-rile-affordability-politics-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics &#8211; Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxNenlNZG1zTGhFZjNmWi1qZUxCSDVnbDZ0QlNtOE5pQlY1Q0VZcGxQaDRUSzJtcXg5UnRybjBla3ltVnlURW5wbjBjeGlZN1Vfa005UG1odjZVSkpHdzNtV1Z5VnpwU01vcHhPaVViNWhvMGtDZ3Vkb2JfZ0U5LWZ1VXJhY3Baa0ZkaDNYX2NUV1Z3ZW15YXVHTC03d2ZwZ1NOWC1oQkVIOUZzOWM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Politico<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a power megamerger could lower bills \u2014 and still rile affordability politics&nbsp;&nbsp;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-70628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628","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=70628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}