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A new report covers 8 powerful policies and practices that cities have employed to reduce energy use, save money, and create local jobs, all on their own initiative.

By 2022, more than 35 million buildings may be generating their own solar electricity (without subsidies) at prices lower than their utility offers, according to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Solar power, without subsidies, can cut electric bills for Hawaii homes and businesses. But a new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance suggests that cheap solar is not a panacea.

In the past 5 years, a new policy has quietly grown more popular, creating enough solar power (1.21 gigawatts!) to send Michael J. Fox “Back to the Future.” CLEAN programs – Clean Local Energy Accessible Now – have been adopted in 14 states.

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.