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Protect Our Power SA

protectourpowersa.org ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 88.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A San Antonio civic campaign arguing that CPS Energy should remain publicly owned, with a tool for comparing electricity bills and a breakdown of the utility's contribution to the city budget.

Why it surfaced

The site puts a live political argument against concrete numbers: it says CPS paid $492 million into San Antonio's General Fund in fiscal 2025, while its comparison of 2024 federal filings finds deregulated Texas households paid more per kilowatt-hour than CPS customers. It also admits that some advertised competitive offers beat CPS, making the methodology more interesting than a simple advocacy slogan.

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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem

August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.

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