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Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Discover how Minnesota's community solar law can promote energy democracy through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and low-income access.

Minnesota scored 11 out of 13 on the 2025 Community Power Scorecard. It passed its first community solar legislation in 2013.

Successful and meaningful community solar policies prioritize four central principles: tangible benefits for participants, flexible ownership structure, synergy with other renewable energy policies, and access for all residents.

At a minimum, state community solar policies must allow non-utility ownership of solar projects. Utility-owned programs are not community solar, but just another way that for-profit utilities squeeze ratepayers for more profits.

A special series of the Local Energy Rules podcast focused on public power; utility companies owned by the cities they serve.

On the Local Energy Rules Podcast, we share stories of monopoly power, energy democracy, and how communities can take charge to transform the energy system.

This special series, called The Promise and Peril of Publicly-Owned Power, responds to an upswell of interest in city-owned utilities. In addition to clean energy, advocates cite local control, lowering costs, and reinvestment in the local economy among the major reasons they want public, instead of private, power companies.

The author is a Senior at Bellevue East High School in Bellevue, Nebraska, and a Director for YEPT. This story is part of The 89 Percent Project , an initiative of the global journalism collaboration with Covering Climate Now .

Fifteen-year-old Chase Parson lies awake sometimes, his mind flitting between worries. He’s not thinking about schoolwork or friendship troubles. He’s ruminating on something much more existential: climate change. 

“I think about how scientists predict we only have a matter of years until the damage caused is too great to reverse, how politicians act as if climate change doesn’t even exist, and how random people on the internet create fake news in order to make people believe climate change isn’t real,” Parson said. 

Parson isn’t alone in his distress about climate change.

Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard

After decades of fluoridating drinking water to improve public health, some communities are wavering on the practice. In one Michigan county, the medical director is mirroring Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts against fluoridation.

Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

The biggest owner of datacentres in the world, Amazon dwarfs competitors Microsoft and Google and is planning a huge increase in capacity as part of a push into artificial intelligence. The Seattle firm operates hundreds of active facilities, with many more in development despite concerns over how much water is being used to cool their vast arrays of circuitry.

Amazon defends its approach and has taken steps to manage how efficient its water use is, but it has faced criticism over transparency. Microsoft and Google regularly publish figures for their water consumption, but Amazon has never publicly disclosed how much water its server farms consume.

When designing a campaign for water efficiency, the company’s cloud computing division chose to account for only a smaller water usage figure that does not include all the ways its datacentres use water so as to minimise the risk to its reputation, according to a leaked memo seen by SourceMaterial and the Guardian.

The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” environmentalist Bill McKibben examines how the remarkable rise of solar power could (finally) begin to slow climate change.

It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1,430 miles, and it may be collapsing. Alas, The Great Barrier Reef Annual Summary Report of Coral Reef Conditions, 2024-2025 presents a dire picture, the poorest condition ever, the worst report in recorded history. Moreover, mass bleaching of coral has been confirmed in 83 countries. Something is seriously wrong with the oceans; this is too anomalous, too massive to ignore as a passing one-off event.

In some of the most agriculturally rich regions in the U.S., researchers from San Diego State University are working to understand how climate change is impacting heat in rural areas and the farmworkers who toil in them.

Discover how Washington's community solar law can promote energy democracy through inclusive ownership, fair compensation, and low-income access.

The most accessible and inclusive community solar programs make community solar membership available to all utility customers, and are administered by an entity other than the utility. They do not have program caps, and do not adopt a first-come, first-served approach to capacity allocation.

• Washington’s original rules for community solar were written in 2009 and updated in 2017. Many of these remain on the books and govern how community solar works in the state.
• The state currently offers community solar incentives through the Community Solar Expansion Program (CSEP), which sets rules for and provides incentives for community solar projects that serve low-income subscribers and low-income service providers.

The PJM power market is embroiled in a crisis where ratepayers are being gouged to line the pockets of generation owners.

They urged their party not to kill Biden’s clean energy credits, but they voted in favor of it anyway. Guess what a clear majority of their constituents believe?

Villagers in Sukhi, Uttarakhand, witness severe glacier retreat, impacting agriculture and livelihoods due to climate change and increased monsoon intensity. | Latest News India

The Affordable Long Drop program will help low income homeowners who live down long driveways connect to the high speed fiber network that runs along the road.

Trump's shortsighted embrace of fossil fuels will mean fewer US jobs and higher energy prices

(Reuters) - Venezuela’s oil exports averaged 1.09 million barrels per day (bpd) in September, the highest monthly level since February 2020, according to shipping data and documents from state-run energy company PDVSA. The country has struggled to stabilize oil production and exports since coming under U.S. sanctions in 2019, but…

All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. And the politicians aren’t doing a thing about it.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas.