Energy for everyone with GRID Alternatives

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about energy democracy, and how the transition to renewable energy can also create a fairer society. It’s not inevitable. Renewable energy can be large scale and remote from ordinary consumers, operated mainly for the benefit of corporations and their shareholders. Offshore wind power and large hydro would tend to have little democratizing effect, whereas solar PV can be installed at the household level and has the most potential for wide participation.

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