Learn how this state is ramping up the fight with the feds for local, clean energy affordability and access.
Pouya Najmaie discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Minnesota’s community solar program, its many regulatory and legislative changes over the years, and how utility Xcel...
Xcel Energy has published their proposed community solar program on Sept. 30, 2013 and ILSR submitted comments on the unlawfully capped and fee-crazy program last...
The first-in-the-nation city-utility partnership has been framed in Minneapolis, but can the city and its utilities really deliver substantive movement toward an equitable energy economy...
Last week the Colorado PUC released draft rules for the Community Solar Gardens created under a 2010 state law. We discussed the legislation in detail...
A new modeling approach from Vote Solar and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) might finally put distributed solar on the same footing in grid...
Discover how Minnesota’s community solar law can promote energy equity through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and access for low-income households.
The first-in-the-nation Clean Energy Partnership has reached the end of its first two-year work plan and has gathered a lot of baseline data. But is...
What does it take to build a community solar project (with battery storage) in a small town in northern Minnesota when the monopoly wholesale energy...
These comments, submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on April 7, underline the value Xcel Energy’s hosting capacity analysis could have as part of...