Ursula Schryver describes the benefits of consumer-owned utility service and Randy Knight reports on the progress that municipalization brought to Winter Park, Fla. This is...
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...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Ari Peskoe discuss how utilities have gained outsized market power by...
Mark Ellis spent years as a chief economist and chief of corporate strategy for investor-owned utilities. He now testifies in support of intervenors. Here are...
Customers of four publicly-owned utilities explain some limitations of the public power model and how they are organizing to increase accountability. This is part five...
California’s Senate Bill 332 aims to address the immediate harms of the state's investor-owned utilities while also investing in a resilient future.
Baintree Electric Light Department (BELD) is partnering with Climate Energy to install and test out a 1 kW Micro-CHP (combined heat and power) systems. The...
John Coyle describes how to form a publicly-owned utility and lists the four ingredients for baking up a public takeover. This is part three in...
There are a lot of stories on residential rooftop solar but few if any on what cities are doing to make themselves energy self-reliant by...
Host Jess Del Fiacco talks with John Farrell, Director of ILSR’s Energy Democracy Initiative, about how cities are taking action around climate change.… Read More
What can a town do to advance clean energy locally if it is fed up with its incumbent, investor-owned monopoly utility? In the latest episode...
A University of Michigan research team set out to envision a future without the status quo of investor-owned utilities. Here are four alternatives.
On March 4th in Decorah, Iowa, residents will once again cast their ballots on creating a municipal electric utility.
Inside Alaska's community energy program: subscriber-owned solar for a one-of-a-kind grid.
This report explores the opportunity of community renewable energy to enable energy democracy, examining the benefits and barriers, barrier-busting policies, powerful examples, and how cities...