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Be in the KnowRise Up news updates feature content curated in conjunction with the Rise Up policy partners. Content is intended to highlight key Midwest clean energy programs, policy updates, and important action alerts.
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Attend a Free Solar Training Info Session
As a part of Rise Up Midwest!, MREA has partnered with Walnut Way in Milwaukee, WI to offer an introductory solar installation training program to eligible applicants. Learn more about this solar...
Local Energy Influence – Featuring SOPEC’s Mathew Roberts
How can your community gain influence over how your energy dollars are spent? It’s not easy. In this episode, we discuss how jurisdictions are harnessing their economic and political power to get...
Midwest Energy Leadership: IL Governor Issues Principles that Would Achieve 100% Clean Energy
Just this week, Senate Democrats released a 200+ page Federal climate roadmap they intend to put into action if they take back the majority this November. The full document, The Case for Climate...
Credit Where Credit is Due – Featuring Winneshiek Energy District’s Andy Johnson
If you have been following energy policy developments in the Midwest over the last 5 years, you’ve probably noticed that electric utilities recently switched from fighting against solar energy development to developing solar projects at a record pace. Have energy companies seen the light? Should we shelve our concerns about wealthy, monopoly for-profit utility companies using their privileged market status and political connections to fight against solar energy and energy efficiency? Not so fast.
A Big Win for Solar
In a controversial April petition, the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) petitioned the Federal Energy Regulation Commision (FERC) to assert jurisdiction over any on-site, behind-the-meter...
Electricity Cost Burdens Have Shifted due to COVID-19
In a time where the future of the office is more uncertain than ever, where the home-office has become the new office, and where unemployment has been at unprecedented levels, we are seeing electricity cost burdens shifting away from employers and onto home employees or the unemployed.
Climate Change Task Force – Take Action Now to Help Develop Wisconsin’s Best Path Forward
The State of Wisconsin Governor's Task Force on Climate Change is working to develop a plan and identify items to be implemented to meet the state's goal of 100% carbon-free energy by 2050 and they...
Get Up and Try – Featuring Outrider Foundation’s Tia Nelson
How does a small kid from a small town make a positive and lasting impact on the lives of many people? If you ask Tia Nelson, she’ll tell you that it is by using our power to get up every day and try. In this episode, we interview Tia Nelson about her decades of work in service of her father’s vision of improving the world’s most polluted environments in service of the people that live there.
A Commitment from the MREA Executive Director
Our moment has a clear calling: Social and Economic Justice.
Preparing for a Post-Pandemic Energy Revolution: Highlighting Successful and Scaleable Midwest Energy Policies
Last month, Forbes published an article arguing that what the post-pandemic world needs is a solar energy revolution. The article details what many of us in the clean industry already know: solar...
TurmOil – Featuring Journalist Bethany McLean
The nation’s self-proclaimed industry of independence has never been more dependent. How can we regain control and stability in our energy markets? Generate locally.
Solar Net Metering Under Attack at the Federal Level – Learn What’s at Stake and Take Action.
A petition on April 14th to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has the potential to trigger nationwide changes to solar net metering. In the petition, the New England Ratepayers...
St. Louis Leads the Midwest, Passes a Building Energy Performance Standard
St. Louis is the first jurisdiction in the Midwest and the fourth in the country to pass a Building Energy Performance Standard (BEPS), establishing incrementally increasing energy-saving targets...
Michigan Group Calls for Clean Energy State Policy to Support Economic Recovery
In Michigan, a trade group has positioned the state’s clean energy industry as a means to mitigate the COVID-19 economic downturn and contribute to the state’s economic recovery.
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The Collapse of Status-Quo Energy Consumption and the Growth of Opportunity
As impacts of COVID-19 are continually realized, Americans are witnessing unprecedented changes in energy prices and use. What does this mean for the future of U.S. energy use, energy efficiency, and distributed energy?
A Letter From our Executive Director Concerning The Energy Fair & Rise Up Midwest!
Dear MREA Supporters and Friends, I hope this letter finds you safe and well. As you are aware, COVID-19 and the virus that causes it have upended lives across the globe over the past month. The...
Physical Distancing, Social Uprising – Featuring MREA’s Nick Hylla
It’s a beautiful grassroots movement to transition our energy economy into a local, resilient, clean, and reliable system that provides the greatest possible benefit to people and planet. Welcome to the world of Rise Up!
Missouri Utility Seeks to Cut Energy Efficiency in Response to Reduced Electric Sales
The coronavirus pandemic and the economic turmoil it is causing mean that people are spending more time at home, making a better case for energy efficiency and resultant reductions in utility bills....
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