Photo credited: RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file
- Denver, CO
- This is more recent news, but "With some members calling it a flawed proposal, the Denver City Council have rejected asking voters to consider a 20-year franchise agreement with Xcel Energy in the November election." (By Judith Kohler, August 12th , 2025 The Denver Post)
- 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 20th, 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:
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