Jonathan Kim

1 month ago | energyandpolicy.org | Shelby Green |Jonathan Kim |Krysti Shallenberger |Sue Sturgis

After spending the past half-decade scaling up efforts to diversify their workforces and suppliers as well as making and touting donations to social justice organizations, corporate utilities across the U.S. have begun to water down or abandon their commitments to promote diversity within their businesses and better serve communities of color.

2 months ago | energyandpolicy.org | Jonathan Kim

Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed off on his first major energy package earlier this month, a suite of policies likely to increase Missourians’ utility bills and corporate utilities’ profits, reflecting his deep ties to the industry. Kehoe signed Senate Bill (SB) 4—the Missouri legislature’s omnibus utility bill—into law on April 9.

Aug 13, 2024 | energyandpolicy.org | Shelby Green |Jonathan Kim

After a nearly four-year effort, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC) was just days away last November from requiring all investor-owned utilities serving more than 2,000 customers to publicly disclose the number of customers they were disconnecting for non-payment by zip code last year.

Jan 16, 2024 | dgtlinfra.com | Jonathan Kim |Jonathan focuses

Submarine cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of all international telecommunications traffic for personal, business, and government use. While we live in an increasingly wireless world, that connectivity depends on little-known underwater internet cables, which are physical links lying on ocean floors, and often referred to as submarine cables, subsea cables, or undersea cables.