
The 2025 Community Power Scorecard: A Summary of 2024’s Wins and Losses
This post breaks down how state-level policies passed in 2024 informed ILSR’s 2025 Community Power Scorecard.
Explore ILSR’s interactive map of 18 state policies that help or hinder local clean energy action.
The Community Power Map is updated annually with the most recent scores from ILSR’s Community Power Scorecard.
Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. State legislators create the rules for building local power — supporting locally owned distributed generation, empowering communities to pursue their own goals, and planning for an equitable transition to clean energy. States can also fight corporate control and hold utilities accountable, protecting ratepayers from inflated costs and other abuses of monopoly power.
This post breaks down how state-level policies passed in 2024 informed ILSR’s 2025 Community Power Scorecard.
ILSR’s annual scorecard surveys a suite of 18 state-level policies that help or hinder local clean energy action.
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The decisions of state legislatures have big consequences for how communities drive clean energy access and hold utilities accountable. This post breaks down how the...