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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Events aim to put drivers behind the wheel of electric vehicles
While persistently low gasoline prices have cooled interest in plug-in vehicles, a series of events next week aim to recharge interest in electric cars.By Frank Jossi .
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Fuel added to flaring fight in North Dakota
Polling shows a majority of North Dakotans support tougher restrictions on the flaring of natural gas in Bakken oil fields, but so far legislative efforts to do so have failed to gain traction.By Frank Jossi .
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Solar farms grow at wastewater plants in Minnesota
In early June, workers began installation of a $3.5 million solar farm next to the Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Plant, part of an ambitious plan by a Twin Cities regional government agency to use marginal land it owns for solar installations. Another solar farm and community solar gardens are also in the works.By Frank Jossi .
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Q&A: Midwest cleantech incubator entering a new era
The Cleantech Open Midwest will now be part of St. Thomas University's Schulze School of Entrepreneurship. Cleantech Open Midwest was co-founded six years ago by Justin Kaster, who recently sat down to talk with Midwest Energy News.By Frank Jossi .
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River to return to work powering Minneapolis industrial lofts
When residents turn on the lights in the A-Mill Artist Lofts overlooking the Mississippi River in Minneapolis next year, some of their electricity will be generated just a few floors below them.By Frank Jossi .
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Minneapolis project aims to bridge racial divide in solar power
On the roof of the Shiloh Temple International Ministries in the heart of a largely African American community in north Minneapolis, a new solar community garden may soon take shape.By Frank Jossi .
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Clean Power Plan could mean big growth for Minnesota energy tracker
With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's final Clean Power Plan now public, a tiny St. Paul nonprofit may soon have a bigger role in overseeing compliance data.By Frank Jossi .
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In 'unprecedented' deal, Minnesota co-ops buy out utility
A group of 12 cooperatives in southern Minnesota have purchased the distribution assets of Alliant Energy Corp.’s Minnesota operations for $127 million.By Frank Jossi .
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Minnesota program helps expand solar and renewables to rural areas
A new program helps farmers and other rural businesses navigate available funding for clean energy and efficiency upgrades.By Frank Jossi .
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Analysis finds Minnesota coal units could shut down with little impact
Two units of the Minnesota's largest and most polluting coal-based power plant could be shuttered without a significant impact to the electric grid under a plan developed by a group of environmental and energy organizations.By Frank Jossi .
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