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!
SEU in the News
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)
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