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Our Voter Guide includes links to candidates explaining in their own words their takes on key issues like local climate justice and environmental sustainability.

Look up your candidates, or read the thread below, and stay informed for election day November 4th!

Minneapolis 2025 Voter Guide Community Power

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.

EPA is trying to terminate lawfully awarded grants, like ours that supports an energy efficiency navigator program, helping neighbors in frontline communities lower their energy burdens.

We applaud the organizations that brought this lawsuit and are taking a stand for environmental 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:

MN Senate energy bill could dial back landmark climate policies • Minnesota Reformer Any co-op or municipal utility customer who wants to install solar after next year would be compensated at the new, lower rate.

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

Rise & Repair Webinar: Defending Community Solar A shared ecosystem of cooperation for Climate Justice & Indigenous Rights in Minnesota's Legislature.

2/2 You can see why there's a bill coming up in the state legislature to kill CSGs, ahem, "sunset" CSGs. AAARGGHHH! Here is the RSVP link for tomorrow's Rise and Repair webinar about this anti-CSG bill and CSG defense in general.
RiseAndRepair.org/communitysolar

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...

4/4 We should however, with a true Rate Payers Protection Act, create more disclosures and enforcement mechanisms for utility transparency and compliance. And we should strengthen protections to keep energy affordable and limit disconnections. In MN disconnections hit a 10-year high in 2024.

3/4 Monopoly utility customers should not pay for these behemoths to lobby regulators or lawmakers, often against our own interests. We should not pay big utilities to pass on the costs of trade organization dues, private jet flights, event sponsorships, and more in energy rates.

2/4 Wouldn't that be a boon in these uncertain times?

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.

YouTube video by cityofminneapolis February 14, 2025 Utility Franchise Agreements press conference

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...

Community Power Co-Executive Directors Leticia Jones and Brian Krohnke.

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.