News & Articles on Community Power
Developing renewable energy on the scale needed to make the energy transition will require public acceptance. Unlike nuclear power, where society can force a single plant on a community for the benefit of society at large, renewable energy will have to become ubiquitous in our communities and on our landscapes. This can only be possible when the majority accept this transformation. Experience has taught that acceptance is greatest when neighbors and the community at large can participate in the renewable energy revolution. The beauty of renewable energy is that everyone can take part–and own a stake in their future–when given an opportunity to do so. The challenge is creating the policies that make this possible, whether it’s for a community wind project or a solar garden.
Bristol Energy Co-op launches ambitious £2.8 million community energy offer
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Liam Stoker
The co-op is looking to develop two separate ground-mount projects – a 4.2MW solar farm near Avonmouth and a 4.6MW project near Puriton in Somerset – as well as a 500kW portfolio of rooftop installations throughout the city.
A German energy crowd-funding start-up that aims to make community energy easy
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Chris Cooper
Dr Peer Piske founded Berlin based energy crowdfunding start-up, CrowdEner.gywith the aim to create a platform which would let all Germans access community energy investment projects.
British Feed-in tariff community and school applications’: September 2015
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Number of community and school installations (and associated capacity), split by type of accreditation granted, at the end of the latest quarter.
The co-benefits of community energy
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Craig Morris
A full description would include mention of community-building as a main driver behind such projects. Western societies are increasingly isolating. Community projects bring people together again.
Community Distributed Wind Provides Local Benefits
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Community distributed wind projects offer investment and returns back to the local community of a wind farm. Alice Orrell of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory explains what community wind and distributed wind mean.
International symposium on Community Power
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Wwea
The symposium called “Trends in Community Power – the Future Role of SMEs and Energy Cooperatives” was held in the Nordsee Congress Center on 15 September 2015. It was hosted by the World Wind Energy Association WWEA in cooperation with the German Wind Energy Association BWE, the European federation of groups and cooperatives of citizens for renewable energy REScoop and the Global 100% Renewable Energy campaign go100re.net.
Developers collaborate to claim UK’s first split community-commercial solar farm
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Liam Stoker
The 9.1MWp Braydon Manor Farm near Swindon comprises a 5MWp community-owned area which has been backed by community energy group Mongoose Energy and WWCE.
26 MW wind farm with 90 percent local ownership in Germany
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Craig Morris
The new project is therefore all the more encouraging. As the press release explains, “no privately-owned (sic) wind farm in southern Germany has as large a citizen share.” With a hub height of 137 meters, the turbines are the kind of design that our Bernard Chabot calls the “silent wind revolution.”
Nova Scotia: Construction of $18-million wind turbine project to begin in November
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Greg Mcneil
Construction on Cape Breton University’s $18-million wind farm is expected to begin in November.
Nova Scotia pulls plug on community tariff
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Diane Bailey
he Nova Scotia government in Canada has pulled the plug on a programme that encouraged the development of small-scale, community-based renewable-energy projects, despite strong demand from local residents wanting to invest in wind.
