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What if…Your Electric Utility Was a Benefit Corporation?
The misunderstandings that from time to time occur between communities and the managers of electric-lighting companies will, to my mind, disappear entirely if the relations...
Grassroots Group Promotes Local Alternatives to Wisconsin Utilities’ Big Ticket Spending
Wisconsin’s coal-reliant utilities remain cool to wind and solar despite mounting enthusiasm for renewables. This intransigence places them squarely in the crosshairs of one grassroots...
Energy Doldrums by David Morris Originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 9, 2003 We’re coming up on the 10th anniversary of a Minnesota...
If we ignore self-generation, three policies are at the center of increasing local control of energy: deregulation (“customer choice”), municipal aggregation (“city choice”), and municipal...
Comments to the Minnesota Division of Energy Resources Re: Value of Solar Stakeholder Process From: Institute for Local Self-Reliance John Farrell, Director of Democratic...
A promising energy efficiency program could get closer to reaching its massive potential after a federal policy tweak that tempers lenders’ concerns to allow more...
The New Power Rules: Marrying Action and Consequence
Thisspeech by David Morris was originally presented at a conference of the Environmental Grantmakers Association 1998 Retreat in Houston, Texas, on October 28, 1998. Letme...
A $48 Billion Opportunity for U.S. Electric Customers
Electricity customers in the U.S. got good news last week. A new report from Accenture highlighted a potential revenue loss for U.S. utilities of $48...
If you’re like most renewable energy advocates that have interacted with a Public Utilities Commission, you probably don’t think they’re a repository of progressive policy...
by David Morris Originally published on Alternet – https://www.alternet.org/ – September 1, 2004 Equating a hybrid with a high-efficiency car was sufficient so long as...
Report: Municipal Energy Financing – Lessons Learned
Twenty states now allow cities and counties to finance energy efficiency retrofits and on-site renewable energy generation and repay the loan with a property tax...
Just How Democratic are Rural Electric Cooperatives?
Randy Wilson knew you had to start somewhere. Knocking on doors and hanging around retail store parking lots, he and volunteers from the citizen group...
