Building on the highly acclaimed 2009 report of the same name, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance has launched Energy Self-Reliant States, a new website to provide expert...
What happens when you combine cooperative solar ownership with a clever standardized design meant to match the scale and capacity of local communities?
Learn about how this Minnesota lawmaker wants to tackle her state’s energy problems.
NOLA’s Community Lighthouse initiative creates local hubs with rooftop solar and portable batteries to save lives after storms.
Learn how distributed power plants are helping everyday people in Puerto Rico save lives and keep the lights on.
How self-sufficient in energy generation could states be if they relied only on their own renewable resources? In November 2008, ILSR began to address this...
Available Now – Energy Self-Reliant States 2ed (also new wind estimates May 2010) How self-sufficient in energy generation could states be if they relied only...
In 2018, numerous states, utilities, and cities made big resolutions to shift to 100 percent clean energy. In a special New Year’s episode of Local...
For 100 years, most decisions about the U.S. electric grid have been made at the top by electric utilities, public regulators, and grid operators. That...
On the one hand: Sky-high electricity prices. A 20th century electricity system burning fuel oil and controlled by large monopoly electric utilities. A proposed utility...
ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell launched the Energy Self-Reliant States blog in late 2010 to provide hard data and analysis on the economic and political...
In this May 2019 interview, ILSR’s Director of Energy Democracy John Farrell, and Ingrid Vila; an engineer and director of Cambio, a Puerto Rico based...
Five years ago, I launched ILSR’s first program blog, Energy Self-Reliant States, to provide regular analysis and perspective on the opportunities to enrich local economies...
Palin’s Self-Reliant Image of Alaska Is Bogus By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, September 15, 2008 In her latest comment on the “Bridge to...
Communities all over the country are finding ways to break the macro barriers to microgrids. As we flip from a top-down to bottom-up grid management...