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City news releases

March 17, 2026 - Ann Arbor Sustainable Energy Utility selects first vendors as customer launch nears
Feb. 24, 2026 - Ann Arbor Sustainable Energy Utility invites residents to express interest in local, renewable energy
Nov. 4, 2025 - Ann Arbor City Council votes unanimously to accept $11 million for district geothermal System
Sept. 29, 2025 - Ann Arbor awarded $250,000 grant to advance Sustainable Energy Utility
July 16, 2025 - Ann Arbor introduces first executive director of Sustainable Energy Utility
Nov. 7, 2024 - Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) authorized in the City of Ann Arbor

News coverage

Ann Arbor making big purchases to launch new sustainable energy utility (Mlive, March 18, 2026)
How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility (Grist, March 17, 2026)
Affordable clean energy in Ann Arbor: Can a city-created utility deliver? (Planet Detroit, Jan. 28, 2026)
New Ann Arbor energy utility may offer customers flat-rate billing for solar (Mlive, Dec. 12, 2025)
Ann Arbor is reinventing the power company (Fast Company, Sept. 2, 2025)
Ann Arbor wants to build its own renewable-energy grid (The New York Times - subscription only)
Ann Arbor’s sustainable energy utility aims to build the electric power grid of the future − alongside the old one (The Conversation, March 10, 2025)
A Michigan city’s ‘sustainable energy utility’ got the green light from voters. What now? (SmartCitiesDIve, Dec. 10,2024)
Voters in Ann Arbor, Michigan, create a local clean energy utility (Canary Media, Nov. 20, 2024)

SEU Newsletters

SEU Newsletter March 26, 2026 (PDF)

Happy Spring! It might be grey and cold this week, but it’s officially time for the sun to
start shining and solar to begin producing, so it’s my favorite time of year!

The SEU is preparing to install and provide our very first pilot solar + storage services in the Bryant neighborhood this spring. We held a kickoff informational meeting with Bryant residents on March 6th. Anyone interested is invited to watch the full meeting recording or a short highlight reel that includes some resident perspectives!

Residents in Bryant who elect to become customers of the SEU will each receive a 4.5kW solar array (10 solar panels) and a home battery. The battery will store excess solar generation from the daytime to use overnight, and it will provide backup power in case of a grid outage, allowing residents to continue meeting essential electricity needs. Bryant customers will pay a pilot rate to the SEU for these services, which is expected to result in total energy cost savings for most homes in the neighborhood.

Last month we mentioned that we were busy evaluating equipment proposals. We have now selected our pilot equipment providers for solar panels and batteries. Read more about this in the “news” section [at the top of this webpage].

We also mentioned that we had Council authorization to hire an Operations Manager. Please see the job posting and share with anyone who may be a good fit!

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