Oakland, California will use ARPA grant funds to construct a city-owned fiber network that will support the city housing authority's “Free Internet Initiative.”
Fort Collins' award-winning municipal fiber network celebrates growth by giving away a year of free Internet access to 20 randomly chosen subscribers.
Brownsville, Texas is now transforming the city's digital landscape with a fiber network to bring fast, reliable, and affordable Internet service to nearly 200,000 residents.
Consumer Reports latest survey of the most popular ISPs in the U.S. once again dominated by smaller providers and community-owned broadband networks.
Imperial, Lassen, and Plumas Counties are among the first recipients of California’s $2 billion Last Mile Federal Funding Account Grant Program (FFA).
As states gear up to administer federal BEAD funds, a handful of states are already making significant investments in municipal broadband with Rescue Plan dollars.
Recent efforts to expand Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) spectrum could be of significant help to local communities looking to bridge the digital divide.
With the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) now bankrupt, San Francisco is being honored for its Fiber to Housing (FTH) program.
In this 15 minute presentation for 350.org’s Utilities Public Education Session, John Farrell explains how ILSR’s Community Power Scorecard, Community Power Map, and other resources...
This guide reviews current opportunities, strategies, and tools for incorporating local decentralized composting into climate action plans, including template language, model measures, equity considerations, and...
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...
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...
Charlie Fisher discusses the upcoming Salt River Project election and how clean energy advocates could flip the public utility's board and reverse anti-solar and anti-democratic...
Lucy Hochschartner explains how public power would have been an improvement over Maine’s investor-owned utilities, yet didn’t receive the support of Maine voters on November...
Steve Fenberg discusses Colorado’s Senate Bill 291, which changed incentives in the investor-owned utility business model to protect Colorado consumers from high fossil fuel costs...