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During five long years of volunteering to Frack Free Wales - I often made the argument to move away from the energy, wealth extraction model of colonial history - the fossil fuels extraction in terms of wealth and the physical decimated land, environment, communities and nature - to never equitably see any kind of sovereign energy wealth for our future generations, or to fund a clean energy transition. ✅ Support the Local Electricity Bill now 👉https://lnkd.in/e23iWntv We know that Welsh communities are still living with its threat to life, the physical and emotional scares, abused by a post political industry legacy, of austerity and neglect. Welsh community needs to, should do, and has every right to own the greater share of the profit from its abundance of renewable energy. There are too many wins associated with community energy - community investment, a mindful reconnect to energy usage, and the social licence to host its installations - and associated infrastructure. I know from from my childhood area - mid Wales, there's much resistance to renewables needed infrastructure, pylons going through SACs, through beautiful, yet very nature depleted landscapes. Local Electricity Bill - https://lnkd.in/ensMTBUf If made law, the Bill would empower Community Energy groups to start up and sell their clean electricity directly to local people. I'd always argue that this is how renewables should be scaled up - where communities can invest in , and generate electricity, and sell directly to local households and businesses - I'd argue this model is also far more climate emergency resilient and if locality is meeting its energy needs though renewable energy generation, storage, and efficiency - in the absence of big industry, do you need huge new, imposing grid connections. Surely this makes communities far less dependant on grid energy that's still hooked on to unsustainable biomass and fossil fuels generation too? #Energy #Renewables #CommunityEnergy Ynni Cymunedol Cymru | Community Energy Wales

Ottawa Community Housing Corporation (OCH) partners with Hydro Ottawa and Envari Energy Solutions for energy efficiency and emissions reductions. READ MORE » https://lnkd.in/g8SjcbNi “By understanding the #decarbonization pathways for each of our buildings, we can make informed decisions on infrastructure upgrades [...]” said OCH CEO Stephane Giguere, MPA, C. Adm, Adm.a . #energyefficiency #emissions Bryce Conrad #retrofit

Growth in the Community Energy sector! A Local Power Plan was announced in The Labour Party's #manifesto yesterday (https://lnkd.in/eS5dviMY), with £600m of grants per year for Local Authorities, massively expanding investment in community-led, community-benefiting clean energy projects. Decentralised and communal energy systems will bring greater resilience to communities, keeping the value within the communities and enabling a more just and fair transition to a clean power system. Community Energy England Community Energy Scotland Community Energy South Community Energy London

Unpopular opinion: there's a lot of very important habitat in the path of the 500kv transmission corridor the NSW government is saying has to be constructed between Liddell and western Lake Macquarie to facilitate the Hunter renewable energy zone. So far, promises that exponential deployment of renewable energy in Australia and globally will lead to emissions reductions and avert catastrophic global warming have not come to pass. This means Australian biodiversity may be facing the triple whammy of the accruing extinction debt of the last two centuries, *and* further habitat loss for the new industrial transformation *and* climate change. We need to ask serious questions about what fire we are fuelling with all this centralised energy and over-production, what kind of society we want to live in, and why small communities, ecosystems and wildlife have to keep paying the price for a voracious machine that seems to never slacken pace and not really be satisfying most people anyway?

Over the 45 years, Community Energy Project has continued to grow by: - Expanding our services - Helping thousands of clients save money and #energy each year - Creating #equity in for low-income customers within the utility grid We are proud to celebrate the progress we have made and also embrace the future with optimism and determination. CEP remains dedicated to the principles that have guided us for the past four and a half decades — equity, #sustainability, and #environmentaljustice. https://lnkd.in/g4H3nG5K #ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #portlandoregon #portland

The updated Western Solar Plan from the Department of the Interior has expanded to cover 31 million acres of public lands across 11 Western states. While the plan promises efficiency in solar permitting, ranching advocates are concerned about grazing land impacts. #RenewableEnergy #Ranching #PublicPolicy

When Chéri Smith visited the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana in 2016, she witnessed a paradox: high-voltage transmission lines crossing tribal lands, carrying power to distant cities, while local communities struggled with energy poverty. In 2018, she launched the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy. While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act have made $14 billion available for tribal clean energy programs, accessing these funds requires navigating a complex web of technical, financial, and regulatory challenges. The Alliance positions itself as a buffer between tribes and other stakeholders, ensuring tribal interests remain central to project development. https://lnkd.in/gWnxe_2n

A recent court ruling has put a temporary halt on land modifications for the Kansas Sky Energy Center solar farm project north of Lawrence. Chief Judge James McCabria granted an injunction after community groups raised concerns about compliance with local regulations and potential harm to farmland. This decision underscores the ongoing debate between renewable energy development and community rights in Douglas County. As discussions continue, the implications of this case could influence future solar initiatives across Kansas. Stay tuned for updates! 🌞⚖️ #SolarEnergy #CommunityRights #Kansas https://lnkd.in/ex7tUtAe #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #GreenTech #SustainableLiving #EcoFriendlyInnovation

The City of Ithaca, New York's Green New Deal, passed in 2019, lays out an ambitious plan to get the town of 20,000+ residents to be 100% carbon neutral by 2030. Key to this effort is #ElectrifyIthaca. Led by BlocPower, the initiative aims to replace all fossil fuel infrastructure—including natural gas in some 6,000 buildings within city limits—with electric HVAC equipment, induction stoves, and the like. By all accounts, equitable, carbon-free energy represents the future of Ithaca, and its mobilization efforts thus far are impressive by any measure. The practical and legislative hurdles to success, however, may be too large and too numerous to bear. In my latest #PolicyWatch column for Green Building Advisor, I spoke with Ithaca's director of sustainability Rebecca Evans and BlocPower's Ethan Bodnaruk, PE about these hurdles, what's been accomplished to date, and what is likely needed to make wide scale electrification and decarbonization a reality. “We need to hit the accelerator. If we can share lessons learned, whether they’re positive or negative, I think that’s a net benefit to other cities. At the end of the day, does it matter if we get to zero? I don’t know. But telling our story is worth something.” - Rebecca Evans https://lnkd.in/eNv-kfVS #Ithaca #EmpireState #GreenNewDeal #IthacaGreenNewDeal #InflationReductionAct #electrification #decarbonization #renewableenergy #solarenergy #hydroelectric #nuclearenergy #lowcarboneconomy #lowcarbonfuture #climatechange #sustainability City of Ithaca - Department of Public Works, Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYSERDA, Avangrid