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The Ithaca DER plan is the brainchild of Paul Fenn, owner, founder, and president of Local Power, who has worked on CCA development since the first aggregation formed in Massachusetts in 1997, and later in California’s large and sophisticated CCA environment. Local Power is acting as administrator of Ithaca’s CCA and DER programs.
Energy Changemaker, 2026 Link
Ithaca Local Economy Lab podcast on CCA, and the launch of OWN YOUR POWER in the City and Town of Ithaca, New York
"A True Ithaca experiment in energy ownership that is looking for participants, and if you live in the City and Town of Ithaca you are eligible." - Dia Click the image to open this August 13, 2026 release podcast .
Paul Fenn
Aug 141 min read
San Francisco Chronicle: He’s the utility industry’s ‘Enemy No. 1.’ - Here’s his latest plan to liberate your power supply
Click to read paywalled San Francisco Chronicle or free version at Press Reader here, or download a scanned image of the print version.
Paul Fenn
Jul 251 min read
Ithaca Tattler Story about Own Your Power
Click image to read The Tattler Story.
Paul Fenn
May 51 min read
Tompkins Weekly: Tompkins Green Energy Network offers new paths to energy ownership
Ithaca’s new Tompkins Green Energy Network lets residents turn monthly energy bills into locally owned clean power systems, with monthly sessions explaining how to join. Click on image to read Tompkins Weekly: Tompkins Weekly, April 15, 2026 - Click on image link to TOMPKINS WEEKLY Click image to read Tompkins Weekly story.
Paul Fenn
Apr 151 min read
OP ED in Ithaca Times
Fuels and services for electricity, heat, vehicles and waste cause 75% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and are the cause of widespread energy poverty. In our time, technological convergence is bringing previously separate energy uses into a single energy ecosystem. What used to be gasoline cars, natural gas heaters, and electrical loads are increasingly becoming electrical, networkable appliances.
peters303
Mar 111 min read
Ithaca Times: City and Town of Ithaca to Debut T-GEN This September, Giving Residents More Utility Control
Click on image to read article at Ithaca Times
Paul Fenn
Feb 261 min read
Decentralized Grid Magazine feature on Ithaca "Own Your Power" service
Elisa Wood article on our energy transition program approved by the City and Town of Ithaca NY for the Tompkins County region - Tompkins Green Energy Network (T-GEN) - tompkins-GEN.com
Paul Fenn
Feb 81 min read
Ithaca's Program Launch in the News
The CCA and DER programs are a part of the city’s aggressive decarbonization and electrification goals it adopted in the Ithaca Green New Deal (IGND) in 2019, the city’s flagship environmental policy. The IGND includes a commitment to reach community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030. The city appears far from reaching that goal, and has already missed another IGND benchmark: to power “government operations with 100% renewable electricity by 2025.”
Paul Fenn
Feb 31 min read
Bloomberg Green Bond Story: How 10 CCAs are Bigger than China in 2024
CCA 2.0, which combines the aggregation of energy demand with Green Bonds, is already out-investing China and Canada
Paul Fenn
Nov 15, 20243 min read
Local Power Update
Expectations are high for Local Power's third iteration of community energy - after 30 years of continuous development of Municipal Aggregation, Community Choice Aggregation, Green Bonds and Sustainable Energy Utilities. We submitted our CCA Master Implementation Plan to the New York regulatory, the NY State Public Service Commission, nearly two years ago. We await and expect approval of the plan in coming months: when depends upon the Commission's President, Rory M. Christi
Paul Fenn
Nov 6, 20242 min read
The Biggest Green Power Thing in America
2023 will one day be known that a major new model for renewable energy blew past the pack.
Paul Fenn
Jul 9, 20242 min read
Local Power's CCA Green Bonds Model Delivers The Largest Issuance of Green Bonds in the U.S.
CCA added to Green Bonds delivers a whole new level of CCA climate fire power. We estimate that CCA 2.0, which is defined by the...
Paul Fenn
Jun 1, 20243 min read
National Rankings: California CCA 2.0 is America's Only Proven Renewable Energy Business Model
We received the latest news on green power achievement by California CCA 2.0 programs and Massachusetts' original Green Municipal...
Paul Fenn
Dec 7, 20234 min read
H Bonds Finally Realized: California CCAs issue $5 Billion in Solar Bonds
In addition to founding Community Choice Aggregation, Local Power has long boasted of our invention of the Solar Bond or Green Bond ("H...
Paul Fenn
Dec 5, 20233 min read
California CCAs Beat US Utilities for 9 of 10 Top Spots for Green Power Customers - 10x the 2nd ten
Got market structure? If not, your climate pathway is fatally flawed. There's a reason that California's CCA 2.0 model, though new, has...
Paul Fenn
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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