Our work a decade ago focused on reports and presentations on local renewable integration topics. When we launched as an independent organization, we were able to expand our scope to include articles, blogs, and op-eds. Since then, we’ve commented on a wide range of local energy concerns, e.g. progress of Community Choice in California, and most recently local energy collaboration and local climate action planning.

If our commentary has a consistent theme, it is that what energy users and communities decide and do may be the best hope for fast global climate action, simply because the political barriers and inertial barriers to affordable climate action are lower locally than in a state, national or global context. Unfortunately, bureaucracy, our friend in most public concerns, is not our best ally in a climate emergency. Technical and economic barriers even to slow evolutionary change still exist in a regional and continental system and infrastructure context, but barriers to impactful, timely local action are low and getting lower. Please return from time to time to check out our latest commentary, and please go to our topical search page to find articles that may still have currency but are not featured here.