Policy & Politics
A growing number of small- and mid-size communities are harnessing their shared market power to promote local renewable energy. Using a state policy called...
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A growing number of small- and mid-size communities are harnessing their shared market power to promote local renewable energy. Using a state policy called...
Sprouting from southeastern Minnesota farm country, the city of Rochester is an unassuming mini-metropolis best known for its world-famous Mayo Clinic. But the city...
Minneapolis garnered national attention when it formed a first-of-its-kind partnership with local utilities to advance sustainable, efficient energy policy. Now, as communities across the...
A widening chasm between what customers want and what Santa Fe’s electric utility delivers is bolstering a campaign to rejigger power production and distribution,...
One new model is emerging that offers an alternative to the traditional investor-owned utility, and aligns with the fantasy of Insull’s original vision to...
“We just need to become the Ben and Jerry’s of the utility world!” So said Mary Powell, CEO and president of Green Mountain Power,...
Incentives designed to make rooftop solar feasible for a wider range of consumers are under attack nationwide, threatening new solar development as well as...
A surge of interest in residential solar arrays threatens traditional utilities’ outdated business model of selling more and more electricity, prompting them to adopt...
In December 2015, Andy Johnson talked with ILSR’s John Farrell about the Winneshiek Energy District and how it promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy...
Originally published on ilsr.org. When people pay their electric bill to an investor-owned utility such as Minnesota’s Xcel Energy, they are generating energy for...
Originally published at ilsr.org. Electric cooperatives arose from New Deal legislation that provided government-backed low-interest loans to bring electricity to rural areas that for-profit companies...