The RE-AMP Network
Think Systemically, Act Collaboratively
The mission of the RE-AMP Network is to set collective strategy and enable collaboration on climate solutions in the Midwest. Our North Star Goal is to equitably eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in the Midwest by 2050.
While some member organizations focus on policy advocacy, others work in frontline communities or focus on building the political will necessary for climate action. Over 130 groups including the Minneapolis Foundation, Union of Concerned Scientists, Joyce Foundation, Ohio Citizen Action, Black Environmental Leaders Association, Climate Generation, Ecology Center, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Sierra Club, Center for Rural Affairs, and many others bring a diversity of perspectives that not only position the Network to build a broader and more effective climate movement in the Midwest, but also amplify Network members’ collective power and ability to achieve results. By thinking systemically and acting collaboratively as peers, funders and advocates within the RE-AMP Network have been working diligently over the last decade toward our shared goal.
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- Duke Energy wants to spend on battery incentives to save on power plants December 8, 2025Since spring of last year, North Carolina's largest utility has been testing whether household batteries can help the electric grid in times of need — and now the company wants to roll out the plan to businesses, local governments, and nonprofits, too. Duke Energy has already paid hundreds of North Carolinians to…
- A major networked geothermal project gets underway in Connecticut December 8, 2025New Haven, Connecticut, has broken ground on an ambitious geothermal energy network that will provide low-emission heating and cooling to the city’s bustling, historic Union Station and a new public housing complex across the street. The project will play a crucial role in the city’s attempt to decarbonize all…
- Trump admin invests $800M in latest move to bolster US nuclear industry December 6, 2025In the race to build America’s first small modular reactors, the U.S. Department of Energy has picked its front-runners. On Tuesday, the agency awarded a total of $800 million in grants, originally allocated under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to two projects developing different kinds of 300-megawatt…
- First utility-owned geothermal network to double in size with DOE funds December 5, 2025This story was first published by Inside Climate News . The U.S. Department of Energy has approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network to double in size. Gas and electric utility Eversource Energy completed the first phase of its geothermal…
- Delayed heating assistance kicks off a winter of energy challenges December 5, 2025This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. The longest-ever government shutdown has ended, but its impacts on everyday Americans are still trickling out. After weeks of shutdown-induced delays, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in…
- Georgia hashes out plan to let data centers build their own clean energy December 5, 2025Big companies have spent years pushing Georgia to let them find and pay for new clean energy to add to the grid, in the hopes that they could then get data centers and other power-hungry facilities online faster. Now, that concept is tantalizingly close to becoming a reality, with regulators, utility Georgia Power,…
- Chart: Hungary is leading the world in solar adoption December 5, 2025See more from Canary Media’s "Chart of the week” column . If you had to guess which country gets the largest share of its electricity from solar, you might understandably toss out the name of a balmy island nation. Or perhaps you’d pick a country with swaths of blistering desert. At the very least, somewhere…
- In a geothermal milestone, Zanskar claims major discovery in Nevada December 4, 2025Geothermal energy is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in large part to a crop of buzzy startups that aim to adapt fracking technology to generate power from hot rocks virtually anywhere. Meanwhile, the conventional wisdom on conventional geothermal — the incumbent technology that has existed for more than a century…
- The grid storage industry set a wild goal for 2025 — and then crushed it December 4, 2025In 2017, the early leaders in energy storage made an audacious bet : 35 gigawatts of the new grid technology would be installed in the United States by 2025. That goal sounded improbable even to some who believed that storage was on a growth trajectory. A smattering of independent developers and utilities had…
- As solar booms and coal fades, Greece’s mining region struggles to adapt December 3, 2025WESTERN MACEDONIA, Greece — For more than a decade, Lefteris Ioannidis had been saying what no one wanted to hear: Coal is dying, and it’s time to prepare for what comes next. He could see the writing on the wall while serving as mayor of Kozani, the largest city in Western Macedonia, even as other […]