Exciting changes are on the horizon for our century-old utility structure as solar power, energy storage, and electric vehicles open new avenues for utility customers...
In my recent report on the utility business model of the future, I laid out 5 pillars of a democratic energy system. It’s hard not...
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...
Browse the Report Introduction What is Energy Storage? Empowering Local Energy Community Solar and Storage Removing Barriers to Storage Supporting Renewable Energy Summary Footnotes DOWNLOAD...
Dr. David Morris is co founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. His five non-fiction books range from an analysis of Chilean...
This Fact sheet was originally published in 2008 but was updated in April 2010. BT is a city department of Burlington, Vermont, which owns a...
The United States, birthplace to the Internet, now lags in access to it. Countriesin Asia and Europe now have faster and cheaper connections, allowing their...
Taking an important step towards making ethanol production more reliant on renewable energy, the Central Minnesota Ethanol Cooperative is nearing completion of a biomass-fueled energy...
In late January, Pacific Gas & Electric submitted an application to establish a three-year demonstration program termed the Climate Protection Tariff (CPT). The new tariffs...
Colorado voters have become the first in the nation to vote on and pass a renewable energy standard on as part of a statewide ballot...
This 1992 report by David Morris is a review of the Mondragon Cooperative in Spain. The report examines cooperative structure, management, education, finance, and banking....
A speech by David Morris presented at The Other Economc Summit in Houston, Texas in July 1990, later published in Annals of Earth (Vol X,...