ANN ARBOR FOR PUBLIC POWER

Head over to Liberty Plaza on Sunday to learn more about the initiative to establish a municipal utility.

Ann Arbor City Council has approved a study that will examine the feasibility of a municipal utility.

ANN ARBOR -- Climate activists with Ann Arbor for Public Power, a grassroots organization that advocates for the city to adopt their own energy utility, gathered outside City Hall on Tuesday, July 5 to boycott the appointment of a DTE official to the Energy Commission. But before the appointment could be made, Mayor Christopher Taylor withdrew the nomination.

On Tuesday, Ann Arbor for Public Power (A2P2) will rally at Larcom City Hall at 5:30 p.m. to protest the nomination of Knox Cameron to the Ann Arbor Energy Commission.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Supporters of forming a municipal electric utility to replace DTE Energy as Ann Arbor’s power provider are inviting the public to learn more about the idea. Ann Arbor for Public Power is hosting a Zoom round table from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17. City Council OK’d a resolution last month directing the city administrator to put together a request for proposals from consultants to study the technical, legal and financial viability of multiple potential pathways the city could take to meet its A2Zero goals to make the community carbon-neutral by 2030. That model is known as an SEU, which the city already has determined is feasible. MORE FROM THE ANN ARBOR NEWS:Ann Arbor partners with nonprofit to launch program to help residents electrify homesAnn Arbor budget outlook shows $2.1M deficit, 4.4% increase in tax revenueCalling all tree huggers: Ann Arbor seeks volunteers to help update forestry planSee how Ann Arborites rank spending options for $24M federal stimulusAnn Arbor subdivision reckoning with its racist past, repealing 1947 whites-only policy

ANN ARBOR, MI — “We can’t burn coal for 2 more decades” and “Ditch DTE” were among the messages on signs outside Ann Arbor’s city hall Tuesday night, Jan. 18. University of Michigan students and other members of activist group Ann Arbor for Public Power demonstrated along Huron Street ahead of a City Council meeting where city officials were considering the city’s energy future. “We thank everyone who has helped advance this effort, including the sponsors of this resolution, the Ann Arbor Energy Commission, and the more than 1,300 Ann Arbor residents who signed petitions in support of a feasibility study,” Ann Arbor for Public Power President Greg Woodring said in a statement. Ann Arbor for Public Power supports full municipalization and notes dozens of Michigan communities have their own energy utilities. MORE FROM THE ANN ARBOR NEWS:Ann Arbor wants residents to get rid of gas furnaces to fight climate changeAnn Arbor aims to make Bryant neighborhood carbon-neutral in 5 years‘We have not done enough.’ Ann Arbor tax to fight climate change headed to voteAnn Arbor homeowners use solar backup batteries to weather power outages80 new electric vehicle chargers coming to downtown Ann Arbor parking system