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Coming Together For Equitable Public Power

A number of communities are taking action to explore what it would take to break from investor-owned utilities who are failing to meet community reliability, sustainability, and affordability expectations and instead form a new public power utilities. Over two years and across multiple states, the Public Power Project collaboration explored the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power. Through landscape analysis, interviews, and focus groups this report shares insights gained about how public power, in its incumbent and emergent forms, can be equitable, just, and democratic.
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The Public Power Project is a collaborative effort to conduct a review of public power efforts in the Midwest from the perspective of campaigners, public officials, staff of existing municipal power utilities, and communities already served by public power.

Participating Organizations Include: Union Of Concerned Scientists | The REAMP Network | Clean Water Fund | West Michigan Environmental Action Council | Cleveland Owns | Soulardarity | Clayton County, IA Energy District | Chicago Democratic Socialists of America | The Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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Knowledge Is Power: Energizing The Midwest ➡️

The Public Power Project is a work of passion and collaboration for a better energy future. Over the past year we took to the road and were able to see communities fighting to hold their utilities accountable, municipal utilities working hard to keep supplying power to their rural towns, and activists who are pushing their local governments to break from extractive investor owned models and transition to municipalization (creating a publicly owned power utility). Let us take you across the Midwest to share insights in this new blog series "Knowledge Is Power: Energizing the Midwest".
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Knowledge Is Power: Energy Self Reliance In Iowa

The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.
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Knowledge Is Power: Energizing The Midwest

The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.