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.
Promoting community renewable energy in a corporate energy world: new policy developments in the UK
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Peter Strachan & Richard Cowell
Presentation on Scotland’s a target of 500MW of community and locally-owned renewable energy by 2020 at the WWEC in Bonn 3-5 July 2012 . . .
The current state of community renewable energy in Scotland
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Anna Harnmeijer
Presentation on community power in Scotland the WWEC in Bonn 3-5 July 2012. . .
Deutsche Welle: Town turns wind power into community business
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Germany’s shift toward alternative energy has seen wind parks pop up around the country. Not everyone wants a power plant in their own backyard. But in Schlalach, the wind park has become a part of town life. . .
Britain’s Westmill Coop To Launch Solar Share Offering
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Westmill solar farm, just outside Swindon, is on the verge of becoming the first community owned and community led solar farm in the UK. . .
Mount Alexander Community Wind
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Mount Alexander Community Wind is a community driven project seeking to establish a locally owned and operated wind plant to supply a significant portion of the energy needs of our Shire. Clean renewable energy will be generated to replace energy derived from burning non-renewable coal. . .
Aaron Bartley: Community Power vs. the Kochs
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In Germany, where the stranglehold of corporate energy has been loosened, renewables now comprise 20 percent, of national energy production, thanks to national policies such as feed-in tariffs which guarantee a stable price for power produced by wind, solar and geothermal systems. More than half of German energy is now produced in decentralized sites like homes, farms and community co-ops. This trend toward distributed generation conflicts directly with the corporate energy paradigm of centralized control. The German model shows that national policies can have a transformative impact that both increases overall renewable energy production while placing ownership in the hands of farmers, small businesses and homeowners. . .
Community Wind: A Review of Select State and Federal Policy Incentives
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Jessica A. Shoemaker Christy and Anderson Brekken
“Citizen Power” Conference to be held in Historic Chamber Where World’s First Feed-in Law Was Enacted
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Paul Gipe
International Community Power Conference Set for 3-5 July in Bonn, Germany 51% of German Renewables Now Owned by Its Own Citizens
CAW leads renewable energy sector with Ontario’s first union-owned wind project
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Ontario’s first 100% union-owned wind energy project breaks ground November 29, 2011, led by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. …
