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Community Power is hiring! + Feb. 2025 Newsletter
Posted by Lee Samelson on February 24, 2025
DOWNLOAD February NEWSLETTER Headlines Community Power is hiring! City Formally Signs Utility Agreements! Xcel takes legal fight to charge Minnesota customers more for itshighest-paid executives'...
Our Take on Minneapolis' New Agreements with Xcel and CenterPoint
Posted by Lee Samelson on February 04, 2025
DOWNLOAD Our Analysis of New Franchise Agreements This is both the culmination of a years-long process and the beginning of a new decade of the...
Minneapolis' New Utility Franchise Agreements Unveiled ! Public Hearing Feb 6th
Posted by Lee Samelson on January 31, 2025
Now more than ever, taking action at the local level to slash pollution that causes climate change is critical, through a clean energy transition...
Minneapolis' New Utility Franchise Agreements Unveiled!
Posted by Lee Samelson on January 23, 2025
DOWNLOAD Jan. 25 NEWSLETTER Headlines & Action Alerts The Mystery Unveiled! Minneapolis’ New Agreements with Xcel &CenterPoint finally released Public Hearing tentatively Feb 6th, online...
Energy Utilities Should Be Rewarded for the Right Behavior Rather than the Wrong. We Must Incentivize Saved Energy Services
Posted by Lee Samelson on October 15, 2024
Pollution is at apocalyptic levels because the financial health of monopolistic power companies improves when they sell more electricity. At least in cases where it...
The Long Extended Cusp Between The Receding Central Station Era & The Emerging Modern Renewable Era Of Our Electricity System
Posted by Lee Samelson on October 15, 2024
In this essay: 1) THE RECEDING CENTRAL STATION ERA & THE EMERGING MODERN RENEWABLE ERA ARE DRIVEN BY THE DIFFERENT ECONOMIES OF SCALE 2) RENEWABLE...
Our Founding Board Member George Crocker Publishes Book titled About Power: How to Democratize Electricity
Posted by Lee Samelson on October 01, 2024
George Crocker, a founding board member of Community Power, has worked on energy democracy issues since the late 1970’s. In his newly published book titled...
Global Entrepreneur who creates solar battery packs from old laptops visits Community Power
Posted by Lee Samelson on September 03, 2024
We were thrilled to have Gibson Tawago, a trailblazer for a sustainable business idea that is much needed for our world, visit us in the Twin...
Utility Franchise Negotiations: No news is good news- Is it?
Posted by Lee Samelson on August 01, 2024
At the July 11th meeting of the Climate and Infrastructure committee of the Minneapolis City Council, Jocelyn Bremmer from the City Attorney’s office gave the...
10 years later - Minneapolis is again negotiating a grand bargain with Xcel and CenterPoint
Posted by Lee Samelson on June 25, 2024
Community Power published in the Star Tribune! We are at a crossroads…again. City leaders must negotiate assertively with Xcel and CenterPoint in July and August...
Hot Off the Press! How We Can Fund Climate Action in Minneapolis
Posted by Lee Samelson on June 25, 2024
With only blunt and uncertain clean energy financing tools at the federal and state level… How can we quickly and justly resource Climate Action in...
Public Hearings on Xcel's next 15-Year Energy Plan
Posted by Lee Samelson on June 03, 2024
Pre-recorded video (very convenient!) or written comments were due on August 9th (getting extended by 6 weeks). Please check for any potential updates here! ***...