Check out our Minneapolis voter guide! https://www.communitypowermn.org/minneapolis_2025_voter_guide

As usual, Community Power has given has asked our potential representatives at City Hall to share their perspectives, experience, and insights on local energy democracy and climate justice.

Community Power stands in solidarity with a coalition of nonprofits, local governments, and Tribes who have filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration
for unlawfully terminating EPA’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program grants.

It's worth another look, come see the uplift to our website: www.communitypowermn.org

Come and join us:

Time to contact your legislators and tell them to protect Minnesota's solar energy industry: minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/23/m...

1/2 So, in Minnesota the largest share of non-utility owned solar is found in Community Solar Gardens, or CSGs for short. They work, they save people money, they give all-people a way to participate in the "clean energy transition" (are we really moving away from fossil fuels? but I digress).

Since we've been foreshadowing the CLEAR Energy Coalition, here's our two-pager for the current legislative session in Minnesota: drive.google.com/file/d/1sKbb...

Clean, Local, Equitable, Affordable, and Reliable Energy. What could make more sense?

Check out the Ratepayer Protection Act 1-pager here: drive.google.com/file/d/17WTB...

1/4 As part of the CLEAR Energy Coalition we support smart ideas like a Ratepayers Protection Act for Minnesota.

4 other states have passed similar laws, and 12 more have introduced bills. Ratepayers in those states have saved at least hundreds of thousands of dollars and perhaps as much as $10M.

Minneapolis is signing new franchise agreements with its regulated monopoly utilities, CenterPoint and Xcel Energy.

See our team member, Alice Madden, speak at the Mayor's signing ceremony: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oYh...

Bringing the fight for energy democracy in Minnesota into our second decade, with a new(ish) co-director model, and a new communications strategy which includes this space of lovely, CLEAR Blue Sky. -- More on "CLEAR" later.