Last week, Minnesota’s utility regulators approved the first state “value of solar” methodology – could it make everyone a winner? Also, I’m off to testify on a bill in Minnesota to study greater energy freedom for cities; specifically, to require a study of community choice aggregation, or as I refer to it, “municipalization …
Energy Self-Reliant States: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning
Last week, I summarized the impact of the judicial ruling requiring Xcel Energy to buy peaking power from solar instead of natural gas: Five Reasons Solar’s Win Over Gas in Minnesota is Just the Beginning. Also, I was quoted by Minnesota Public Radio about the release of the Minneapolis Energy Pathways …
How (r)evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy
Hello from the crew at FoO! Over the last month we’ve been reading, analyzing, and honing in on the most vibrant conversations taking place in the Working Groups. Our February issue, the ‘Focus on Working Groups’ presents you with a number of blogs and essays highlighting exciting strategic ideas, specific …
Convergence XI: Church as an Economic Being
Convergence XI: Church as an Economic Being March 19 – 21, 2012 Simsbury, CT Where is an imagination to shift the rules of markets and the economy part of the mission of the church? Where can we as individuals and communities engage and shape, today, the practices of a new …
Things We Can Do In Tough Times
September 6, 2011 Greetings! I hope you have had a great Labor Day Weekend! Thank you for taking a few minutes to read this e-mail newsletter, the first that I have done in two years since leaving the Maui Small Business Development Center. I have been spending more time with …
Utilites Give the Big Picture on Electric Vechicles and the Smart Grid
Dear Hazel, Greentech Media’s The Networked EV: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles brings together the experts that will let you know about the big picture in the electric vehicle market! Our opening roundtable session: The Networked EV Big Picture: Let the Rollout Begin will set the stage for the rest …