Cities and towns all over Massachusetts are looking for alternatives to the big incumbent Internet Service Providers in their communities as citizens across the Commonwealth...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell and guests Howard Crystal and Liz Veazey discuss a recent petition to the...
The pandemic exacerbated the deeply rooted issues in cities around the nation — but the youth of Worcester, Massachusetts, decided that they wanted to enact...
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...
Sky Stanfield discusses how good interconnection policy and proactive grid planning can capitalize on existing distribution infrastructure for the most cost-effective clean energy transition.… Read...
Brian Callnan discusses New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s Transactive Energy Rate pilot program and how the energy sitting in electric vehicle batteries can provide additional value...
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...
A determined coalition fights to block a private takeover of the state’s largest utility. … Read More
In this episode from the archive, Howard Crystal and Liz Veazey discuss a petition to the Federal Trade Commission and why electric utility practices require...
Chris Rauscher explains the benefits of coordinating distributed energy resources, how residential solar and storage customers have saved their neighbors from blackouts, and why every...
Stacy Mitchell joins David Sirota on Lever Time to dive into monopoly history and how antitrust action can break up the conglomerates.
Note: This article was originally published in the April 2002 issue of Democratic Energy The Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD’s) Advantage Home program requires a...
A battle is raging for control of the Internet and it is not taking place in Washington. Scores of cities, fed up with the recalcitrance...
For the fourth year in a row, a national survey of independent businesses has found that those in communities with an active "buy local" campaign...
Distributed generation (DG) puts energy production close to where it is consumed, often on people’s homes or in their backyards. But just having a rooftop...