Local Power LLC

10/11/2026

"New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much of the city’s garbage are filling up fast. More than two-thirds of the city’s municipal waste is transported to landfills hundreds of miles away. Yet, under current permits, the state is projected to run out of landfill capacity for that garbage within 16 to 25 years. As communities upstate push back against new and expanding landfills, the city may have to send its trash farther away. While efforts to divert more waste from landfills have made progress, experts say the city remains heavily reliant on landfill and waste incineration."

Much of New York City’s waste ends up in sprawling landfills far from the city. Upstate communities say they’ve had enough of being dumped on.

10/09/2026

Melbourne-based Allume Energy won the 2026 Australian Good Design award of the year for its SolShare system. The product, which works like a “traffic controller for solar” enables power produced by a shared rooftop system to be split among several apartments without multiple installations, individual inverters and messy wiring. It also received the award for sustainability.

SolShare, enabling power produced by a shared rooftop solar system to be split among several apartments, also wins for sustainability

09/26/2026

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/20/nyc-can-use-our-own-local-clean-energy/

New York City’s relentlessly hot summer exposed the harsh reality of a power grid stretched to capacity: just as air conditioning became a necessity, New Yorkers were asked to reduce electricity use to help prevent outages. Demand for c…

09/15/2026

That a problem?

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.

09/09/2026

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09/09/2026

"The utilities administer the Mass Save energy efficiency program, handle interconnection of solar projects, and agreed to Healey’s winter relief initiative.

It means that Healey can cast the companies as a critical partner when it’s advantageous for her to do so — or turn them into a political punching bag and convenient foil when it benefits her.

'If you’re running for office, this is not bumper sticker stuff,' said Ann Berwick, a former chair of the Department of Public Utilities, which regulates the utilities. 'You can’t condense the cost of energy and who’s to blame very well'

It’s not hard for Healey to point the finger at the utilities for the state’s high energy costs as she seeks reelection amid an affordability crisis. The companies’ names are, after all, on the energy bills that customers receive — and a top priority is to deliver returns to their investors.

Yet the browbeating from the corner office is both exposing heightened tensions and masking underlying tradeoffs in the relationship between the utilities and the Healey administration.

While rate increases and other critical policy decisions are made by the Department of Public Utilities — whose commissioners are appointed by the governor — the utilities are large, regulated monopolies that wield significant influence over the energy distribution and transmission infrastructure that gets built. And virtually everyone agrees that the utilities will need to deploy capital and make large investments in new or upgraded poles and wires to deliver more electricity and have more of it come from clean sources.

'It is hard to make significant change in energy policy in Massachusetts without going through the utilities,' said Kevin Conroy, partner at the Foley Hoag law firm and a former state deputy attorney general. 'If you want to have an offshore wind facility, you need the utilities to buy the power from that facility. If you want to have a battery storage facility, you need the utilities to buy the electricity from that facility. If you want to have a large transmission line, you need the utilities to be part of that. And the utilities are going to use every chance that they get in Massachusetts to push for benefits for themselves and their shareholders.'"

Healey can cast the utility companies as a critical partner when it’s advantageous for her to do so — or turn them into a political punching bag and convenient foil when it benefits her.

09/05/2026

Local Power created the first Green Bond in 2001 - San Francisco's Proposition H "Solar Bond" Authority, which voters approved as a city charter amendment. The model was developed for CCAs and CCAs are the largest issuers in recent years, but it has also spread worldwide into a trillion dollar "climate finance" industry. See comments for reference article.

Green bond issuance is reaching record levels despite remaining a small part of the global bond market, with new financing models such as UK solar bonds highlighting their potential to support the energy transition.

09/04/2026

Local Power created the first solar bond in 2001 - link in comments

A solar bonds scheme could absorb the financial impact of rooftop solar, while keeping your energy bill savings. Here’s how.

09/03/2026

An important new alternative to PFAS gas refrigerants used in nearly all US heat pumps

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08/30/2026

Why thank you!

Letter: A financial model that could cut the cost of installing solar panels for many homeowners is welcomed by Alexis Abramson