Frank Jossi is an independent journalist and consultant based in St. Paul, Minnesota and a longtime contributor to Midwest Energy News. His articles have appeared in more than 50 publications, including Minnesota Monthly, Wired, the Los Angeles Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Jossi has also been a Humphrey policy fellow at the University of Minnesota, a Fulbright journalism teacher in Pakistan and Albania, and a program director of the World Press Institute at Macalester College.
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In Minnesota, utility grant to help advance microgrid technology
A Minnesota university will take a step forward on microgrid research thanks to a grant from the state's largest utility.By Frank Jossi .
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Q&A: Conservatives debate clean energy approaches in Minnesota
Catrina Rorke,the state program director at the conservative R Street Institute, discusses a free market approach to clean energy ahead of her visit to Minneapolis today.By Frank Jossi .
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'Value of solar' gains another foothold in Minnesota
Minnesota became the first state in the nation Thursday to adopt a “value of solar” approach for determining how community solar customers will be paid for the power the projects produce.By Frank Jossi .
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Minnesota mayor doesn't share legislators' alarm over coal shutdown
The mayor of a Minnesota town that state lawmakers have warned would be negatively impacted by the Clean Power Plan says he supports plans to shut down two units at a coal plant there.By Frank Jossi .
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Minnesota refinery plans major combined heat and power project
A new project in Minnesota would bring combined heat and power generation and add new technology to capture sulfur at one of the Midwest’s largest oil refineries.By Frank Jossi .
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Minnesota advocates ‘pleasantly surprised’ with new U.S. Bancorp climate policy
Minnesota climate activists say they are “pleasantly surprised” after Minneapolis-based U.S. Bancorp issued a new environmental policy in June that will reduce lending for coal-fired power plants, coal mines and other environmentally harmful projects.By Frank Jossi .
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Q&A: Minnesota companies create ‘circular economy’ coalition
More than 25 Minnesota businesses, which include the state’s largest employers, have come together on a strategy for creating a “circular economy” to eliminate waste and rely on renewable energy.By Frank Jossi .
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Teen activism moves Minneapolis suburb to pass climate initiative
Officials in a Minneapolis suburb adopted an aggressive greenhouse-gas-reduction policy last month that was brought forth by a group of local high schoolers who are part of a national climate change movement.By Frank Jossi .
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Q&A: The world's eyes turn to Minnesota on district energy
As St. Paul prepares once again to host an international district energy conference, interest in the process appears to be growing.By Frank Jossi .
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Minnesota regulators halt rural co-ops' fixed charges for solar
Minnesota’s rural distributed generation customers won a major victory this week when state regulators halted the practice by cooperatives of applying fixed charges for solar installations.By Frank Jossi .
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