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Within ten years, 100 million Americans in the nation’s largest cities will be able to get cheaper electricity from rooftop solar than their utility provides.

With lower risk and increased transparency, CLEAN Contracts make solar power cheaper than other solar policies like solar REC markets, says a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

A more democratic electricity system is within our grasp, argues the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, but we will have to fight for it. The catalyst is renewable energy that can be harnessed in decentralized fashion virtually anywhere.

Maximizing Jobs From Clean Energy: Ontario’s ‘Buy Local’ Policy, a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, details how Ontario’s bold clean energy program develops 43,000 clean energy jobs and 5,000 MW of clean energy.

Building on the highly acclaimed 2009 report of the same name, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance launches Energy Self-Reliant States, a new website to provide expert analysis and policy solutions for a decentralized renewable energy future.

A new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) examines nine community solar projects, the policies that made them possible, and the (substantial) barriers that remain.

A National Renewable Energy Laboratory study reinforces the findings in ILSR's 2009 report, Energy Self-Reliant States, which concluded that all 50 states could generate at least 25 percent of their electricity needs from in-state renewable energy.

Twenty states allow cities and counties to finance energy efficiency retrofits and on-site renewable energy generation. A new report from ILSR examines the performance of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs.

Five Midwest states (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio) could get nearly all their electricity from wind, according to updated maps from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR).

There’s good news and bad news in President Obama’s smart grid announcement. The good news is the grants. The bad news is that President Obama continues to conflate the need for a smart grid with the need for a new national high voltage grid.