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.
Explaining wind power planning outcomes: Some findings from a study in England and Wales
By
David Toke
Available online 21 March 2004. by Dave Toke Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK …
Community Wind:The Third Way
By
Paul Gipe
Portions of the following have been adapted from Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, published …
Community Wind: Margam Wind Energy Clusters
By
Paul Gipe
Margam Wind Energy Clusters Appeal Ref: APP/Y6930/A/02/1103415 Appeal of Community Power Proof of Evidence by Paul Gipe Scale of Turbine …
Wind Energy for the Rest of US
By
Paul Gipe
A Brief Proposal for a New Wind Energy Association in the United States by Paul Gipe Need for New Organization …
Community Wind Power Ownership Schemes in Europe and Their Relevance to the United States
By
Mark Bollinger, Lbnl
Paderborn and the Sintfeld Community Wind Project
By
Paul Gipe
At the time of its dedication in 2001, Paderborn-Sintfeld was one of the largest wind projects in Germany. It was …
Financing Distributed Wind Development 1997
By
Paul Gipe
The following article appeared in an edited form in Independent Energy. With restructuring fever sweeping the North American utility …
Cooeperatieve Windenergie Vereniging Kennemerwind
By
Paul Gipe
Kennemerwind was not the first wind cooperative in the Netherlands, but is one of the largest in number of members. (Several members of the Dutch wind fraternity own shares, including ECN’s renewables director Jos Beurskens.)
Farmer Noud de Schutter
By
Paul Gipe
Noud de Schutter is president of Vereniging Windenergie Noord Holland (the wind turbine owners association of North Holland) and a …
