Oregon tries to tie utility profits to climate, cost, and reliability targets through performance-based regulation.
Learn about how this Minnesota lawmaker wants to tackle her state’s energy problems.
Learn how distributed power plants are helping everyday people in Puerto Rico save lives and keep the lights on.
Use these four shortcuts to boost your state’s ranking on the national Community Power Scorecard leaderboard.
Utility overspending, not rooftop solar, is driving California’s rising rates – Richard McCann debunks the “cost shift” myth.
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.
Explore ILSR’s interactive map of 18 state policies that help or hinder local clean energy action.
Communities can do a lot to advance energy democracy, but some tools must be granted by state policy. This annual scorecard from ILSR’s Energy Democracy...
Ben Inskeep discusses Indiana’s backward solar policy, why local solar is a threat to utilities, and how to go up against the powerful entrenched interests...
Sachu Constantine explains the obstacles and opportunities arising for the electric grid as customers become generators and what California got wrong in its 2022 net...
Today the Institute for Local Self-Reliance was joined by joined by 24 utility justice, consumer advocate, and environmental organizations in submitting comments urging the Energy...
Ted Thomas, former chair of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, discusses access, fairness, cost shifts, utility monopolies, and innovation in the electricity sector.
In a proposed decision earlier this week, California’s Public Utilities Commission will dramatically reduce the viability of rooftop solar in the state that launched the...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell and Vote Solar’s Thad Culley discuss a net metering settlement underway in the...