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.

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.

Malcolm Brown Receiving The Community Wind Award From Windustry's Lisa Daniels For His Work Installing Hull, Massachusetts' First Wind Turbine In 2001.

Hull Massachusetts’ Malcolm Brown Wins Windustry Award

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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

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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

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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.

Canada’s first 100% renewable energy community project

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Craig Morris

Oxford County, Ontario, has just opened a wind farm as part of a project to go 100% renewables for electricity and heat

Energiewende MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)

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Craig Morris, Iass Potsdam

28 youtube.com videos on the Energiewende with an emphasis on the Electricity Rebels who sparked a renewable energy revolution in Germany.

Let the people lighten energy load with citizen-owned schemes

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Gérard Magnin

Urgent climate action must be taken and communities are willing to participate in their own electricity production – if the incentives are right

Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program is the Best

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John Farrell

Why? Because there 10 times more community solar projects in the queue—400 megawatts—in Minnesota than have been built in the history of community solar in the United States (40 megawatts).