Community Power

Grassroots Decisions Meet Grassroots Energy

We are building relationships, popular education resources, and power within communities for an energy future that is CLEAN, LOCAL, EQUITABLE, AFFORDABLE, & RESILIENT. We believe in our hearts that our leverage, and our solutions come at the local level.

Examples of our Energy Democracy work:

1. Organizing nonpartisan voter and candidate education on energy democracy during Minneapolis local elections, which we will resume in 2025.
2. Building up an Energy Navigators program to connect community members to join real-life energy efficiency projects that lower living costs, mitigate climate change, and deepen democracy in their community. We will accelerate this work in 2025 in a big way and are hiring for two energy efficiency navigator positions as we speak!
3. Intervening for energy justice in ways that bring concrete benefit to our everyday lives.
4. Taking opportunities to make the cost savings and health benefits of energy efficiency, weatherization and community solar gardens more accessible to a greater number of people.
5. Bringing an equity and power analysis into energy decision-making processes, which bypass the "forcefields of tedium" and the jargon that the big power players use to protect themselves. 
6. Helping achieve satisfactory outcomes in the recent Xcel and CenterPoint rate case decisions, keeping what we pay in our monthly utility bills reasonable.
7. Making abundant public comments in the decision-making processes that govern the sources of energy for Xcel and CenterPoint (Xcel's Integrated Resource Plan, CenterPoint's Natural Gas Innovation Act plan.) 
8. Shifting outcomes towards community-driven and beneficial processes for the Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan beginning in 2022 and continuing with the Just Transition Fund. 
9. Holding decision-makers accountable to actively invite, include, and be responsive to community-based groups and community members rather than just utilities, government agencies, and big "power players."

Help fuel the energy democracy movement & contribute today! Learn more about how we use these resources and our work at:  www.communitypowermn.org.