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.
‘Extreme caution’ as Hull’s first large wind turbine to be taken down following major blaze
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The turbine was built back in 2008 along the banks of the River Hull. Standing at an astonishing 125m, it has been a part of the Hull skyline for over 15 years.
Hull Wind: A Real Urban Wind Turbine
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Paul Gipe
Hull is a small coastal town 13 km (8 miles) across the bay from Boston, and is only 8 km …
Low-Income Group Installs 4.2 MW Wind Turbine in the West of England
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Paul Gipe
Tom Wall of the Guardian reports (England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds) on a community group …
Feldheim: The energy self-sufficient village
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Annika Leister
If your German is not up to the article on Feldheim here’s the gist in English. Feldheim is reaping the …
Traverse City Green Rate Wind Project
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Susan Kopka
YouTube video on First green pricing wind project in USA.
Traverse City’s historic wind turbine retired, makes way for solar panels
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Sheri Mcwhirter
An historic wind turbine that for decades served as a clean energy symbol and up north geographic marker recently came down near Traverse City.
Camden Hills Regional High School Windplanners celebrate 10 years of energy production with wind turbine
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Sadie Woodruff
Ten years of the turbine in our backyard has shown we can coexist with wind energy.
Confirmed: Tvindkraft Designed to be Slightly Larger than Smith-Putnam
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Paul Gipe
Erik Grove-Nielsen has confirmed that the Tvindkraft wind turbine was designed to be slightly larger than the Smith-Putnam wind turbine and become the world’s largest wind turbine in 1978.
Britain’s First Wind Farm–Three Decades of Delabole–What a Cornish Farmer with a Can Do Attitude Did
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Paul Gipe
Thirty years ago Cornish farmer Peter Edwards, his late wife Phillipa, and his son Martin installed Great Britain’s first wind farm despite the attacks of those who said it couldn’t or shouldn’t be done. But they persisted, overcoming all the planning objections and the naysayers, completing the project in late 1991.
Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program is the Best
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John Farrell and Maria Mccoy
Minnesota’s community solar program grew to 822 megawatts of operational capacity in November 2021. The chart above shows the progress of projects through the program since August 2015, and the nearly two-year lag between the program launch in December 2014 and the successful ignition of multiple megawatts of capacity in January 2017. Note: the megawatt sum of projects in the application stage reported by Xcel Energy is a minimum, hence the plus symbol.
