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.
Community solar’s promise may go unfulfilled in Oregon
By
Steve Law
Oregon Public Utility Commission treats new approach as a modest pilot project rather than a potential game-changer
Global Initiative for Distributed and Local Energy (DALE)
By
Eric Martinot
Our mission is to support and facilitate the global transition to much greater use of distributed and local energy, community-by-community, city-by-city, and to emphasize and make visible solutions, models, and policies that result in local ownership and that provide income to cities, local communities, local businesses, and individuals.
Biggest Dutch onshore wind farm to be community owned
By
Craig Morris
What’s more, the discussion and ownership options are making wind power more popular in the Netherlands. In other countries, you might expect protesters to appear during the information events in the planning stage, but Zomer says “we increasingly have people coming by to have look at their wind farm.”
Hohe Akzeptanz für Windenergie dank Bürgerbeteiligung
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Agentur Für Erneuerbare Energien
“Als die Gemeindevertreter der drei Gemeinden mit diesem Konzept auf die Bürger zugingen, war das Vorhaben schnell akzeptiert“, erinnert sich Schäfer.
Blow wind blow! Developer aims to put 6 or 7 turbines near Sackville Nova Scotia
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Sackville Town Council heard plans last night from an Ontario-based energy company for a 20MW community wind generating station about 10 kilometres northwest of downtown Sackville.
Local planning, sharing benefits key to wind-farm buy-in, study finds
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Nova Scotia policy on wind farms makes them 3 times more popular than in Ontario, study says.
Hull Massachusetts’ Malcolm Brown Wins Windustry Award
By
Paul Gipe
Malcolm Brown, long-time local activist from Hull, Massachusetts won the Windustry award for community service in a brief ceremony at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC Tuesday night.
Wind Energy Development in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada
By
Chad Walker
A stark, but somewhat expected finding is the high degree of support for wind energy in Nova Scotia compared to Ontario. Local support of their own nearby turbine development was three times higher in the Nova Scotia cases where community-based development was much more common, but the size (scale) of N.S. developments was also most often in the order of only one to five turbines.
WWEA is Looking for a Community Wind Officer
By
Stefan Gsänger
The World Wind Energy Association in Bonn, Germany is seeking a person fluent in English & German to study Community Wind. The position is for 2.5 years.
Senvion starts operation of biggest First Nations windfarm
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Senvion announced that on 2th December wind turbines at the 150 MW Mesgi’g Ugju’s’n windfarm in Quebec started spinning. It is the biggest First Nations windfarm in Canada. The project is an equal partnership between Innergex and the three Mi’gmaq communities located on the territory of Gespe’gewa’gi: Gesgapegiag, Gespeg and Listuguj.
