Examples of Utility Franchise Negotiations, Municipal Power Efforts and Revenue-Raising Tools for Climate Action Nationwide - Community Power

Examples of Utility Franchise Negotiations, Municipal Power Efforts and Revenue-Raising Tools for Climate Action Nationwide

posted by | 1284PP
March 18, 2025

Ann Arbor, MI
- Voters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, create a local clean energy utility The municipal effort aims to supplement utility DTE’s grid with local, reliable, clean energy at below-market rates. (By Julian Spector November 20^th, 2024. Canary Media)

Winter Park, FL
- City of Winter Park, Florida municipalization story (Slideshow)

San Francisco, CA
- "S.F. leaders want to cut ties with PG&E—again" (SF Examiner, 2022
- "San Francisco considering municipal utility as PG&E prepares bankruptcy filing" (Utility Dive, 2019)

Portland, OR
- The Portland Clean Energy Fund - passed by voters & created by the City of Portland in 2018

National:
- Bringing Cities and Their Utilities into the 21st Century: How Cities Can Renegotiate Franchise Agreements for the Clean Energy Transition (Rocky Mountain Institute)

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