Learn how public power can tackle the affordability crisis.
What makes faith communities such attractive hosts for resilience hubs?
San Diego may be the only city to have secured upfront funding from utility shareholders to make clean energy cheaper.
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...
Learn about pending Minnesota legislation to enable distributed power plants and their potential impact on energy affordability.
The solar tax credit landscape is changing. Third-party ownership could be one way to cut losses.
For this milestone 200th episode, John Farrell reflects on 10 years of making the Local Energy Rules podcast, shares what he has learned from over...
John Farrell explains five alternatives to a public power takeover that can still advance a community’s clean energy and environmental justice aims. This is part...
No state in America is currently doing utility regulation well. But there’s hope.
On Molokai, a Hawaiian island and community with the highest utility rates in the country, the resident-led Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative is using its local knowledge...
Across the U.S., over 80 cities have made commitments to transition to 100 percent renewable energy. As the largest such city in the Southeast, the...
On this rebroadcast of the Building Local Power podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Denise Fairchild. The two discuss energy democracy within the context of...
More than 100 U.S. cities have now set ambitious commitments to transition to renewable energy, but how are they working to make these goals a...
In 2018, numerous states, utilities, and cities made big resolutions to shift to 100 percent clean energy. In a special New Year’s episode of Local...
On the one hand: Sky-high electricity prices. A 20th century electricity system burning fuel oil and controlled by large monopoly electric utilities. A proposed utility...