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

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 12^th , 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 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)