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David Roberts
Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
1 hour 5 minutes Posted Jul 23, 2025 at 4:02 pm.
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Ann Arbor voted to create a parallel, municipal electric utility that offers only distributed renewables, and Missy Stults is the woman making it real. We explore the nuts and bolts: buying existing solar for seed revenue, building microgrids in a city still served by DTE, and why DTE is — so far — more curious than threatened. If it works, the SEU could become the blueprint for every climate-ambitious town trapped in IOU territory.



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