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Recent Stories

-- Ithaca Voice (New York): Ithaca to Launch Community Choice Aggregation Following Delays (January 22, 2025)

-- Greenfield Recorder (Massachusetts): No Assault & Batteries forum provides overview of new climate law (December 11, 2024)

-- Greenfield Recorder (Massachusetts): State climate law leaves locals uneasy (December 6, 2024)

-- Greenfield Recorder (Massachusetts): My Turn: No good answers with utilities in control (May 9, 2024)

-- Athol Daily news (Massachusetts): Forum on large battery storage and solar fields (March 22, 2024)

-- iBerkshires (Massachusetts): North Berkshire Waste District Interested In Hydrogen Facility Project (January 22, 2024)

-- The Republican (Massachusetts): A cleaner way to process trash? This Western Mass. company says it has a plan (alt: no paywall at MSN) (January 13, 2024)

-- Orange County Register (California): OC Power Authority sees greener pastures ahead after rough first year: startup offering O.C. residents cleaner electricity shows progress in addressing issues raised by auditors (November 3, 2023)

-- Ithaca Times (New York): Competing with the NYSEG Monopoly: TGEN to Create Community Power at Lower Costs (July 12, 2023)

-- American Public Power Association: California Community Choice Aggregator Utilizes Second Pre-Pay Green Bond (June 27, 2023)

-- iBerkshires (Massachusetts): Waste-to-Hydrogen Technology Pitched to Williamstown Select Board (June 28, 2023)

-- TBR News Media (Long Island): Community Choice Aggregation: Town of Brookhaven joins energy revolution (March 9, 2023)


Feature Stories on Local Power LLC 2020-22

-- mynewsLA: Orange County Board Votes To Withdraw From Power Authority (December 21, 2022)

-- Orange County Register: New Report Details Mounting Problems at Orange County Power Authority (December 13, 2022)

-- Voice of Orange County: Bombshell County Audit Calls Out OC’s Green Power Agency (December 13, 2022)

-- Ithaca Voice: Ithaca Green New Deal: Enfield officials considering renewable energy program similar to Ithaca (September 16, 2022)

-- Ithaca Voice: IGND: Ithaca explores way to purchase renewable energy (May 23, 2022)

-- MIT News: New power sources: Thirty-six million people in the U.S. use an energy system developed by a handful of activists in the 1990s (February 22, 2022)

-- City of Ann Arbor: City of Ann Arbor Releases Report on Creating a Publicly Owned Sustainable Energy Utility (October 28, 2021)

-- MLive: DTE responds to Ann Arbor’s latest idea to create renewable energy utility (October 15, 2021)

-- Utility Dive: As utilities match CCAs on price, aggregators increase climate action, grow economies of scale to compete (May 4, 2021)

-- KBOO Radio - 90.7 fm in Portland, 104.3 fm in Corvallis, 91.9 fm in Hood River, Oregon : Paul Fenn on Community Energy: Universalized across the U.S. and the industrialized world, Community Energy, confederated in regions, could greatly reduce the existential threat of climate change. (May 3, 2021)

-- Microgrid Knowledge: New Partnership Bets on Waste-to-Hydrogen Microgrids (August 24, 2020)

-- Energy Live News: New partnership formed to develop hydrogen-fuelled microgrids - Ways2H and Local Power have joined forces for advanced microgrids powered by hydrogen generators, solar power, battery storage and heating automation (August 20, 2020)



Feature Stories on Local Power LLC 2018-19

--Yale Climate Connection (New Haven, Connecticut): Community choice aggregation: A brief introduction (December 9, 2019)

--The Daily Freeman (New York): Community Choice Aggregation workshop offers information, guidelines (October 22, 2019)

--Utility Dive: As CCAs take over utility customers, local renewable generation emerges as the next big growth driver (October 8, 2019)

--Voice of San Diego: Once Scrappy Upstarts, Community Choice Agencies Could Become the New Power Monopoly (February 28, 2019)

--Winters Express: Express Investigates: The murky future of Valley Clean Energy (December 21, 2018)

--PV Magazine: California’s community has chosen 2 GW of renewables (November 27, 2018)

--Utility Dive: California decision means higher costs for community choice programs (October 12, 2018)

--Bloomberg: California Is Raising Costs for Defectors From Power Utilities (October 11, 2018)

--New Times San Luis Obispo: At last, Community Choice (October 04, 2018)

--The Desert Sun: Is California risking another energy crisis with community choice programs? (May 8, 2018)

--The Desert Sun: Rancho Mirage is now a power company, and the rest of California might follow its lead (January 18, 2018)

--Bloomberg Business Week: Paul Fenn Wants to Give Your Electric Company the Boot (January 9, 2018) Paywalled: View PDF version


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Feature Stories on Local Power LLC 2016-17

--EcoMotion: Background on Community Choice Aggregation (May 24, 2017)

--California Alliance for Community Energy: CPUC Bias Favoring Monopoly Utilities Against Community Choice (March 31, 2017)

--Clean Power Exchange: Inventor of Community Choice Describes CCA 2.0 (August 30, 2016)

--The Portrero View: City Launches Clean Power Program (July, 2016)

--San Francisco Chronicle: Diablo Canyon closure shows California’s power grid is changing fast (July 2, 2016)

--EnergyWire: Meet the latest disruption for utilities: community power (June 9, 2016)

--The San Francisco Examiner: With strong enrollment in CleanPowerSF, focus shifts to renewable energy projects (March 4, 2016)

--FastCoexist: How Collective Energy Buying Is Helping Communities Go 100% Renewable (April 6, 2016)

--The Independent: Councils should use bonds to fund green infrastructure projects, says Lord Mayor of London - There is great potential for the UK to follow the Scandinavian or North America models (February 27, 2016)

--The San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. green energy program to launch May 1 (January 13, 2016)

--University of Freiburg: Understanding the regional process of energy transition in Marin County, California (January 12, 2016)

--The Desert Sun: Will Riverside County Ditch Southern California Edison? (January 8, 2016)


Feature Stories on Local Power 2014-2015

--Clean Energy Finance Forum (Yale Univ.): Clean-energy aggregation opens states’ imaginations (September 30, 2015)

--CleanTechnica: What brought Local Power to New York? (July 24, 2015)

--Pt. Reyes Light: Clean energy promises greener (July 23, 2015)

--Renewable Energy World: How New York is using local power & microgrids to transform the state (June 15, 2015)

--East Bay Express: Our local green future (June 10, 2015)

--Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Community Choice programs empower electricity customers in New York and beyond (June 4, 2015)

--TriplePundit: Renewable, local power options expand (May 15, 2015)

--Grist: California communities seize control of their energy futures (February 25, 2015)

--Saugerties Times: Remaking the power grid in New York State (February 17, 2015)

--New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: Governor Cuomo announces new clean energy initiatives to grow economy and protect the environment (December 12, 2014)

--San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. clean energy program could generate 8,100 jobs, report says (November 16, 2014)

--Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Sonoma County Leads way in expanding green power industry (October 23, 2014)

--North Bay Business Journal: Sonoma Clean Power flips switch for first customers (May 1, 2014)

--Pacific Sun: Upfront: The green light - MCE model inspires a Sonoma agency to form (April 25, 2014)


Feature Stories on Local Power 2012-2013

--Pacific Sun: Upfront: today Marin Clean Energy, tomorrow the world! (November 22, 2013)

--Press Democrat: PD Editorial: the promise of local power contracts (November 21, 2013)

--CleanTechnica: Boulder and the spread of Community Choice utilities (November 13, 2013)

--Truthout: A national example, San Francisco's green power plan still stalled by corporate interests a decade later (August 23, 2013)

--San Francisco Bay Guardian: Fizzling energy - Political stalemate impedes green power program (August 21, 2013)

--Renewable Energy Focus: Bid to build renewable energy generation facilities in San Francisco (August 6, 2013)

--Huffington Post: Clean Power Coming Soon to San Francisco (July 22, 2013)

--San Francisco Bay Guardian: Power struggles: New research by consultant Local Power shows CleanPowerSF could create 1,500 local jobs per year for 10 years (July 16, 2013)

--ABC News 10 San Diego: Ratepayers may have more energy choices: County supervisor wants to break SDG&E monopoly (June 25, 2013)

--San Francisco Weekly: Power Play: San Francisco's Plan for Clean, Local Energy Lacks One Detail: Everything (April 10, 2013)

--California Energy Markets: Why CleanPowerSF Could Fail (February 1, 2013)

--San Francisco Examiner: Successful launch of CleanPowerSF called into question (January 28, 2013)

--Eureka Times-Standard: Greener power for Arcata? City would be first in county to join program seeking alternative energy deals (January 11, 2013)

--Midwest Energy News: How Chicago’s municipal aggregation could be a boon for renewable energy (November 15, 2012)

--The Wall Street Journal: Cities take on utility role - Chicago and other communities buy cheaper, often cleaner energy for residents (November 12, 2012)

--Pacific Sun : Clean energy extends its cord - Marin's spark catches fire in San Francisco and beyond (September 21, 2012)

--EnergyBiz : San Francisco’s green rush getting started (September 20, 2012)

--San Francisco Chronicle : S.F. weighing green alternative to PG&E (September 16, 2012)

--San Francisco Bay Guardian : Harrington finally brings CleanPowerSF to City Hall, hoping his SFPUC legacy will be a city that produces its own renewable energy (August 28, 2012)

--Rock River Times (Illinois): Energy efficiency in Germany and the U.S. (July 25, 2012)

--Rock River Times : Community Choice Aggregation as envisioned by Paul Fenn (July 16, 2012)

--Point Reyes Light (Marin County): Marshall-based energy group localizes on power and profit (June 28, 2012)

--East Bay Express (Bay Area): When Will We Go Green? (May 30, 2012)

--The Arcata Eye (No. California): Energy Aggregation Could Widen Renewable Choices (February 27, 2012)

--The Daily Northwestern (Chicago): San Francisco company aims to localize renewable energy in Evanston (February 13, 2012)

--North County (San Diego) Times: Rebelling against SDG&E: Locals want alternative (Jannuary 28, 2012)


Feature Stories on Local Power 2010-2011

--San Francisco Daily Journal: San Francisco Explores Alternative Power Deal (December 22, 2011)

--Earth Techling: San Francisco Begins Down The All Clean Energy Path (December 9, 2011)

--Renew Grid (San Francisco): SFPUC gives Local Power green light For RFPs (November 28, 2011)

--The Bohemian (Sonoma) : The bottom line - green and cheap energy: Can Sonoma County have both? (November 23, 2011)

--San Francisco Daily Journal: Municipalities seek alternative to public utilities (November 16, 2011)

--The Anderson Valley Advertiser (Mendocino): Green, Cheap, Now: an interview with Paul Fenn of Local Power Inc. (November 5, 2011)

--Good Magazine: Local Power: Boulder considers moving off the grid (November 4, 2011)

--350.org: 350.org Endorses local power ballot measures in Boulder, Colorado (October 27, 2011)

--Sierra Club, Global Exchange, Local Clean Energy Alliance, Our City and Brightline Defense: Press Release: Environmental, Worker and Justice Groups Hail Breakthrough with CleanPowerSF Program (October 11, 2011)

--National Renewable Energy Laboratory Blog: The New(er) hids on the block: Community Choice Aggregators (August 29, 2011)

--The Boulder Daily Camera: Guest opinion: Localization is not municipalization (June 26, 2011)

--Renewable Energy World: CCA Local Power begins California expansion (June 1, 2011)

---The Bohemian: Voltage & Violets - How a public power agency in Sonoma County could revolutionize the grid (May 25, 2011)

--North Bay Business Journal: First Marin, now Sonoma moves on energy program (April 4, 2011)

--Huffington Post: Local Power for Boulder and beyond (December 18, 2010)

--The San Francisco Bay Citizen: SF courts bidders for new, greener power company (October, 2010)

--Sacramento Business Journal: Voters pull the plug on PG&E-backed proposition (June 2010)

--Marin Independent Journall: Legislation that made Marin Clean Energy possible emerged from chaos of deregulation (May 5, 2010)

---S.F. Business Times: Marin says 78% of its power is renewable (April 2010)

---Wall Street Journal: PG&E spending millions to block local utilities (2010)


Feature Stories on Local Power 2008-2009

--Sonoma County Press Release: $1 Million Renewable Energy Secure Communities Grant to Sonoma, Local Power Inc. (2009)

--New York Times: New group seeks to bring greener power to Marin (2009)

--National Public Radio - KQED San Francisco: Power struggle in Marin (2009)

--SF Weekly: Green scheme (2009)

--Good: Giving Power to the People (2009)

--Fast Company: Paul Fenn vs. PG&E (2008)

--Clean Tech / EnvirTrade: Sidestepping the utilities to go green (2008)

--Renewable Energy World: Financing green projects (2008)

--San Francisco Chronicle: Local communities reach for power over energy (2008)

--Terrain: Power to the people (2008)


Feature Stories on Local Power 1995-2004

--Renewable Energy World: San Francisco calls for 360 MW renewables (2004)

--East Bay Business Journal: Island utility inspires public power push (2004)

--Contra Costa Times: PUC OKs new utility guidelines (2004)

--Marin Independent Journal: Local leaders push energy authority (2002)

--San Francisco Chronicle: Power buying by cities gets Assembly OK (2001)

--Los Angeles Times: San Francisco envisions a solar city (2001)

--The Nation: California's deregulation disaster (2001)

--Contra Costa Sun: Advocate aims to paint local power green (2000)

--San Francisco Bay Guardian: Power to the people (1998)

--Electric Power Alert: Novel competition plan to allow muni bidding hits Massachusetts Legislature (1995)

Local Power Press Announcements

--Local Power Releases CCA 3.0 Program Design Launches Local Green New Deal project 2020

--New York Launches CCA Program: NYSERDA program support "to allow participating local governments to procure energy supply service and distributed energy resources (DER)"

--ECOreportLaunches Local Power Channel 2015: Environmental news service creates curated channel for Community Choice 2.0

--Local Power 2014 Press Release on CCA in New York State:Governor Cuomo initiative includes Community Choice Aggregation for New York State

Local Power 2013 Press Release on San Francisco's In-City Buildout Plans:San Francisco turns the corner as CleanPowerSF In-City Buildout Strategy takes hold

--Local Power Press Release on San Francisco Task Order:LPI receives green light to design and prepare major green electricity localization

--Local Power 2011 Press Release on Boulder Muni Vote:Boulder, Colorado voters approve green municipal utility

--Fenn 2010 Statement on Defeat of Prop 16:PG&E's campaign to stop Community Choice defeated

--Local Power Works 2009 Press Release 76% green bid to Marin Energy Authority

--Local Power 2007 Announcement San Francisco Prepares to Vote on Major “Energy Independence Plan”

--Local Power 2006 Announcement San Diego Plan Would Replace Power Plant With Solar, Wind Projects: Local Power Plan

--Local Power 2005 Announcement San Francisco Community Choice Implementation Plan Up for Vote at City Hall

--Local Power 2003 CPUC Testimony Local Power Joined by Greenpeace USA, Public Citizen, and Local Groups in RAGE Coalition Opposing CPUC Plan to Put Ratepayers on the Hook for $ Multi-Billion Utility Power Contracts and New Gas-Fueled Power Plants

--Local Power 2001 Announcement “San Francisco Voters Pass "Solar City Charter" With Proposition H

--Local Power 2000 Legislative Testimony to Joint Utilities Committee California's Electricity Market: Making Competition Work For Consumers

--Local Power 1999 News Article Ohio Gets Community Choice

--Local Power 1999 News Article Deregulation in California, One Year Later

--Local Power 1998 News Article After Approving Community Choice Provisions in House and Senate Versions, New Jersey Legislature's "Reconciliation Bill" Removes It

--Local Power 1997 News Article Massachusetts Legislature Passes Nation's First Electric Deregulation Bill with Community Choice Intact

--Local Power 1996 News Article California Passes Pro-Utility Deregulation

--Local Power News Company Archive 1995-2008


 
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