Minneapolis Clean Energy Partnership Agreements Signed with New Goals
Posted by Lee Samelson · April 18, 2025 12:12 PM
Examples of Utility Franchise Negotiations, Municipal Power Efforts and Revenue-Raising Tools for Climate Action Nationwide
Posted by Lee Samelson · March 18, 2025 3:32 PM
The Minneapolis Clean Energy Partnership and its Structure
Posted by Lee Samelson · March 18, 2025 1:16 PM
Count On It: Adding Numbers will Add Heft to First City-Utility Clean Energy Work Plan
In late May, the nation’s first clean energy partnership between a city and its utilities released its first two-year work plan. It holds true to the notion that the city and utilities can work across a broad swath of energy initiatives in pursuit of increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy. And with some solid metrics, it promises to be an excellent tool for accelerating toward a clean, local, and equitable energy system in Minneapolis.
For background, the Minneapolis city-utility partnership sprang out of grassroots demand for more local energy decision making and was ratified in a signing in October 2014. Late last fall, Community Power board president wrote about the potential for this partnership, raising three key questions:
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