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CCA is America's green power choice; Green Bonds are the world's green power funder
Local Power offers municipalities an unprecedented opportunity for the "energy transformations" called for by the United Nations, by 2030, to avert climate catastrophe. We are now helping US cities, towns and counties implement yet another original model for community energy: centered on community wide physical energy transition. We call it "Own Your Power."
​For 30 years, Local Power LLC has created and led the development of a new community-based model for energy called Community Choice Aggregation ("CCA"). In the process, Local Power added other models to make aggregation a more powerful instrument of change, such as as Green Bonds to finance local renewable energy build-outs, and Sustainable Energy Utilities.
In 2026, CCA is authorized in half of the U.S. energy market with 50 million Americans offered service by over 1800 municipalities. While about one in ten Americans receive CCA service, six of ten Americans choosing renewable energy are CCA customers. Nine of the top ten US utilities with customers receiving renewable energy above state minimums in 2023 were CCA "2.0" programs in California, which serve ten times the number of customers buying renewable energy than the next ten on the list. Virtually every community in this country with 100% renewable energy is a CCA. Green Bonds are a trillion dollar industry worldwide, and CCA 2.0 programs in California were the largest US issuers of Green Bonds in 2023, issuing more Green Bonds than the nation of China.
U.S. municipalities are increasingly choosing CCA specifically as a powerful vehicle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create local economic development and green jobs, or improve local energy resilience. This is possible because CCA is enabled and facilitated by state laws under which communities may take control over local energy use, laying a foundation for changing the way we use energy.
In addition to creating CCA, Local Power founder Paul Fenn wrote the world's first "green bond" or "climate bond" authority in San Francisco in 2001, to complement San Francisco's Community Choice Aggregation of grid power procurement, enabling CCAs to finance and build local renewable energy in 2001, known as "H Bonds" or Solar Bonds.
We spent over a decade helping municipalities implement this model. In 2004 and in 2007 San Francisco adopted a CCA ordinance, CCA Draft Implementation Plan, and H Bond Action Plan for a service to "meet or beat" the utility rate while using the solar bond authority to finance and build 360 MW of local renewables and energy efficiency measures. Since then, Green Bonds have played a major role in Local Power's development of the CCA business model, and at the same time have become a $1 T industry worldwide, transforming renewable energy even apart from CCA -- inot to mention the $20B in Solar Bonds that California CCAs have issued in recent years, leveraging an additional $28B in 20GW renewable generation built or underway. That's $48B of new investment mostly in-state, regional and locally sited, supporting 48,000 green construction jobs to date. In 2024, California CCA 2.0 programs were the largest issuers of Green Bonds in the US - larger than China.
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Following its CCA 2.0 project, Local Power has learned to adapt its climate-centric strategy to traditional municipal utility business models and laws, working with both San Francisco and Boulder, Colorado to bring broad innovation into community energy policy, creating a menu of strategies or toolkit to enable municipalities to pursue more impactful climate action.
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In addition to working with municipalities in CCA 1.0 and 2.0 environments, Local Power has also worked in climate-focused municipal utility formation strategies with a focus on how to finance local community energy transitions, not only through state programs, but also through the use of local home rule authority. In recent years, Local Power has provided strategic advice to Ann Arbor Michigan, which does not have a CCA law, to develop its Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU), a new behind the meter supplemental renewable energy utility model.
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​While CCA was built on opt-out aggregation, Local Power's new model for community wide decarbonization rests on separate layers of opt-in choices with or without CCA. Energy users access not just greener power through aggregation, but ownership: not just lower emissions from sourcing and mitigation but onsite control and use. Local Power's "Own Your Power" program in the Tompkins Green Energy Network (T-GEN) is not just for property owners but for anyone who pays an energy bill. That's almost all of us. Contact us for an energy transition based on a truly new business model for energy.
How We Got Here
The Story of Local Power LLC
1995
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Municipal Aggregation created in Massachusetts
Local Power Founder Paul Fenn coauthors first state Municipal Aggregation law allowing communities to buy electricity.
1999
CCA created in California
Local Power drafts first Community Choice Aggregation law allowing communities to build local renewable energy facilities.
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