Examples of Utility Franchise Negotiations, Municipal Power Efforts and Revenue-Raising Tools for Climate Action Nationwide
Posted by Lee Samelson on 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 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
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