New York Times Features Marin and SF Green Power Fight With PG&E

Katherine Mieszkowsky has written an illuminating article in the Sunday Times on Marin's climate protection efforts - and the effort...

San Francisco Supervisors Approve CCA RFP

October 27 - San Francisco, California. Supervisors approved a major City document seeking a new, radically green supplier of electricity fo...

Report on Energy Self-Reliant States Published

The Institute for Self Reliance, which has led the nation's energy localization movement for a quarter century, has published an excelle...

Stop the PG&E Power Grab - PAC Formed

Local Power has joined The Utility Reform Network (TURN) and Capitol Consulting to form a Political Action Committee in opposition to PG...

Local Power Proposes 76% Renewable to Marin at PG&E Rates

We finally did it. The Marin Energy Authority said Marin County residents and businesses want at least 51% green power in the community-wide...

GOOD features Local Power

Noella Boudart has written a short feature in GOOD Magazine on Local Power's meteoric rise from political advocate to industrial protago...

Microgrids vs. Green(washed) Transmission: Fast Company Article

Pulitzer-nominated author and j ou rnalist Anya Kamenetz has written another excellent article on local power in the July issue of Fast Comp...

California Funds Local Power Inc. Regional Energy Resiliency Projects

The California Energy Commission approved Local Power Inc.'s funding to implement Renewable Energy Secure Communities in Sonoma County a...

PG&E "Taxpayer Rights" Initiative Would Suppress Green City Movement

Bill, Initiative Would Block Climate Action Plans: “Taxpayers for The Right to Vote” Would Override City Governments' Authority to Negot...

Local Power Marin Launch (Radio Show Post)

Marin Carbon activists Bing Gong, Bernie Stephan discuss the potential of the newly created Marin Energy Authority with green power author/a...

Greenwashed

Transmission is Dumb and Brown. Gas and electric monopoly utilities are exploiting public misunderstanding of green power to promote new t...

California Releases Major Report on Community Choice

The California Energy Commission has released its Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) Pilot Project Report , outlining the opportunity for co...

REVAMP

We have revamped localpower.com. Local Power staff articles published by NATURAL GAS & ELECTRICITY by Howard Golub, Robert Freehling, Da...

ObamaSmartGrid

Much has been said about President Obama's new "Smart Grid" legislation, which could transform America's energy system. Bu...

Green Power Kills

We have been waiting to see just how negative SF Weekly 's cover story on San Francisco's CleanPowerSF (CCA) would be, and it was in...