Energy News Network -

Energy News Network (https://energynews.us/author/fjossi/)

Frank Jossi

Frank is an independent journalist and consultant based in St. Paul 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, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota Technology, Finance & Commerce and others. Frank 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.

Wisconsin

How an organic dairy’s quest for clean energy spread solar across Wisconsin

By Frank Jossi

Organic Valley’s project expanded into a complex partnership that it hopes can be replicated by others.

advocacy

Clean energy conference shifts focus from academics to climate advocacy

By Frank Jossi

The conference, Aug. 5-9 in Minneapolis, will focus entirely on climate change, with an emphasis on advocacy over academics.

PACE financing

workers install solar panels on a roof

Study: Nonpayment risk remote for commercial clean energy loans

By Frank Jossi

Commercial building owners very rarely miss payments on property assessed clean energy loans, a federal lab found.

Minnesota

Will renewable natural gas credits help jumpstart new market for biogas?

By Frank Jossi

Critics say tracking renewable natural gas production and sales will be difficult and present opportunities for fraud.

storage

Minnesota utilities weigh energy storage as substitute for peaker plants

By Frank Jossi

A 2019 state law requires utilities to consider energy storage in their long-range resource plans.