Bill to Limit Community Broadband in North Carolina Will Kill Jobs

Date: 22 Feb 2011 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

While the rest of the world is working to become more innovative and competitive, the North Carolina General Assembly is considering a bill that will stifle innovation, hurt job creation and slow economic development. The Bill, H129/S87 will effectively prevent any community from building a broadband network and impose onerous restrictions on existing networks.ILSR is helping groups in North Carolina to stop this bill from becoming law.… Read More

American States Can Learn Much From Ontario’s “Buy Local” Clean Energy Strategy

Date: 10 Jan 2011 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Canadian province of Ontario has launched a clean energy strategy to maximize economic development while reducing pollution.  Maximizing Jobs From Clean Energy: Ontario’s ‘Buy Local’ Policy, a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, details how Ontario’s bold clean energy program – in just over a year – has resulted in the promise of 43,000 clean energy jobs in support of 5,000 MW of clean energy projects.  … Read More

Banning Community Networks Ensures Slower, More Expensive Internet for North Carolinians

Date: 23 Nov 2010 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

North Carolina consumers and businesses would pay more for slower internet access when communities are preempted from building broadband infrastructure according to a new analysis released today by the Institute for Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. This analysis shows that community fiber networks are faster and cheaper than incumbent cable and telephone networks in North Carolina.… Read More

Twin Cities Economy Hurt By Slow, Expensive Internet

Date: 17 Nov 2010 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Twin Cities Internet subscribers pay more money for slower Internet than even small towns with community owned broadband according to a new analysis by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance’s New Rules Project. Over the past several years, communities in the Twin Cities have considered building their own community owned network to increase competition, lower prices, and ensure everyone has access to the connections required for success in the digital economy. The failure to do so is costing consumers and businesses millions and the Twin Cities untold amounts in lost business opportunity.… Read More

ILSR Congratulates Chattanooga for Fastest Broadband Network in United States

Date: 14 Sep 2010 | posted in: information, MuniNetworks, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Electric Power Board (EPB) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has announced a citywide 1 gigabit per second (1 Gbps) broadband tier, by far the fastest citywide broadband tier available in the U.S.   By the end of the year, 170,000 households and businesses in the region will have access to the fastest speeds available – at affordable rates. Christopher Mitchell, the Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), recently visited Chattanooga to tour and discuss their community-owned fiber network. Read More

Community Solar – A New Model for Local Ownership?

Date: 9 Sep 2010 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States, Press Release | 7 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), Community Solar Power: Obstacles and Opportunities , examines nine community solar projects, the policies that made them possible, and the (substantial)barriers that remain.  Successful community solar power projects in Colorado, Maryland, and North Carolina are knocking down the price of residential-scale solar photovoltaics (PV) by 25% … Read More

Energy Self-Reliant States Get A Boost From New Federal Study

Date: 3 Jun 2010 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States, Press Release | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A new study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reinforces the findings of a 2009 report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR).  The ILSR report, Energy Self-Reliant States, concluded that all 50 states could generate at least 25 percent of their electricity needs from in-state renewable energy while 31 could generate over 100 percent.  … Read More

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