Local and renewable energy

11 publications

• The Transition starts here, now and together

  Rob Hopkins, Lionel Astruc, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, October 2017

• Energy democracy. Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions

  Edited by Denise Fairchild, IslandPress, United States, October 2017

• Empowering Electricity. Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada.

  Julie L. MacArthur, University of Bristish Colombia Press, October 2016

• How Government Support for Social Enterprise Can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba

  Lynne Fernandez, Errol Black Chair, Canada, January 2016

• Innovations In Sustainable Consumption. New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices

  Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt, Edward Elgar Publishing, United States, February 2013

• The Resilience Imperative. Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, BC, Canada, June 2012

• Exploring Community Resilience

  Nick Wilding, Fiery Spirits, UK and Carnegie Trust UK, 2011

• World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

  Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute, USA, 2011

• The Human Economy

  Keith Hart, Jean-Louis Laville, Antonio David Cattani (Editors), Polity, Cambridge, October 2010

• The Green Collar Economy : How one solution can fix our two biggest problems

  Van Jones, Harper-Collins, USA, 2008

• Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies in an Unstable World

  Expanded online edition published June 2003 with updates by Richard Douthwaite, Joanne Elliott and Caroline Whyte.

  Richard Douthwaite, The Liliput Press, Dublin, Ireland., 2003

12 Videos

• Cooking and Heating With Direct Solar Power (No Batteries)

  Sam Butler, October 2024

  Living Energy Farm

• Power to the people: Delivering energy justice through community energy

  Right to Energy Forum 2022, January 24 to 28, 2022

  January 2022

  Energy Cities

• Reema Nanavaty, General Secretary of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

  Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy? International Conference , UNTFSSE, 25 – 26 June 2019

  June 2019

• Audio : Circular Economy Villages

  2019

• ENERCOOP, supplier of 100% renewable energy in Languedoc-Roussillon, France

  December 2015

  SUSY

• Documentary: Power to the People

  Sabine Lubbe Bakker, July 2015

• Community Shares Case Study - Chase Community Solar, Cannock

  June 2015

• Dorset Community Energy: Community Shares in Solar Panels

  May 2015

• REScoop Documentary (Full version)

  August 2014

• Power to the people with renewable energy cooperation (Business Planet - euronews)

  July 2014

• Car reduced living in Vauban, Freiburg, Germany

  June 2014

• Sanjit “Bunker” Roy, founder of Barefoot College, which helps rural communities becomes self-sufficient

  TED, 2011

  October 2011

A pedagogical tool

• The essential guide to doing Transition. Getting Transition started in your street, community, town or organisation.

  by the Transition network Team Rob Hopkins, Michael Thomas, 2016

One proposal

• Solar Dollars – a way to promote renewable energy, while supporting the local economy and providing interest-free financing for utility companies

  Thomas H. Greco, August 2016

11 case studies

• The municipality of Burgas pioneers energy efficient housing in Bulgaria

  Transformative Cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Burgas energy efficient housing, 2020

  TNI

• PENGON-FOE Palestine: Empowering Women as Sustainable Energy Leaders project

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  PENGON-FOE Palestine, 2019

  TNI

• Barcelona Energia

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  Barcelona en Comú, 2019

  TNI

• Cloughjordan Ecovillage

  Transformative cities - Atlas of Utopias

  2018

  TNI

• Illinois’s Cook County Helps Solar Energy Cooperatives Rise and Shine

  Kevin Stark, July 2017

• How Government Support for Social Enterprise Can Reduce Poverty and Green House Gases

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba

  Lynne Fernandez, January 2016

• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands)

  Sustainability 2015, 7(2), 1900-1931

  Thomas Hoppe, Antonia Graf, Beau Warbroek, Imke Lammers, Isabella Lepping, 2015

• Social and Economic Benefits of Community Energy Schemes

  report produced by Shared Assets and the National Trust

  Shared Assets and the National Trust, UK, 2014

• What factors enable community-leadership of renewable energy projects? Lessons from a woodfuel heating initiative

  Jennifer C. Rogers, Eunice A Simmons, Ian Convery, Andrew Weatherall, March 2012

• Green Energy and Green Economy Act

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Power to the People: community‐led wind energy – obstacles and opportunities in a South Wales Valley

  Community Development Journal, 36, 96-110.

  Emily Hinshelwood, 2001

41 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Energy sharing for energy communities - a reference guide

  Part of Energy Communities repository of the European Commission

  January 2024

• Financing guide for energy communities

  REScoop.eu and EcoPower, January 2023

• Energy Communities Repository

  European Commission

  2023

• Community Energy Municipal Guide

  Sscale 20 30 50

  December 2022

• Wind energy: A gender perspective

  IRENA report

  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 2020

• Status report 2019 : Reshaping the future. How local communities are catalysing social, economic and ecological transformation in Europe

  2019

  Ecolise

• Solar Action Plan for London

  Mayor of London

  June 2018

• A Community-Led transition in Europe: Local action towards a sustainable, resilient, low-carbon futureE

  September 2017

  Ecolise

• Energy and Gender: Ecofeminist views on energy

  Rapporteurship of the debate - Xarxa per la sobirania energètica. La Fede, April 24th 2017

  April 2017

• “Territories of Commons” in Europe: pivotal for food production, nature stewardship, heritage maintenance and climate mitigation

  Extended document presented and discussed during the first meeting of the European Commons Assembly, 15-17 November 2016, Brussels

  Jose Luis Vivero Pol, November 2016

• Cultures of Community Energy International case studies

  Neil Simcock, Rebecca Willis, Peter Capener in association with Lancaster Environment Centre – Lancaster University, May 2016

• Energy, democracy, community

  John Duda, August 2015

• Power To The People: Toward Democratic Control of Electricity Generation

  Trade Unions for Energy Democracy Worling Paper n°4

  June 2015

• The energy transition to energy democracy. Power to the people.

  Final results oriented report of the REScoop 20-20-20 Intelligent Energy Europe project

  REScoop, April 2015

• The institutional space of community initiatives for renewable energy: a comparative case study of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark

  Energy, Sustainability and Society 2014

  Marieke Oteman, Mark Wiering, Helderman Jan-Kees, 2014

• Power to the people: local energy initiatives as seedbeds of innovation?

  Energy, Sustainability and Society2014

  Maarten Arentsen, Sandra Bellekom, 2014

• Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives

  ILO Publication

  December 2013

  BIT/ILO

• Europe in transition. Local communities leading the way to a low-carbon society.

  Eamon O’Hara, June 2013

  AEIDL

• Worker Solidarity Confronting the Crises of Capitalism: Bottom-up Solidarity Economy and Political Ecology in South America

  hink pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Cristián Alarcón, Cristobal Navarro, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Making Space for Economic Democracy: The Danish Wind Power Revolution

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Andrew Cumbers, May 2013

  UNRISD

• The Possibility of a Pluralist Commonwealth and a Community-Sustaining Economy

  the good society, vol. 22, no. 1, 2013

  Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, 2013

• Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transitions

  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 30(3) 381 – 400

  Gill Seyfang, Alex Haxeltine, 2012

• Social Factors in Wind Energy Development of Denmark in 1980s – 1990s: Society and Technology

  Panuwat Permsantithum, Rajarajan Rathinavelu, 2012

• Bringing Social Equity into Low-carbon Investment: why it matters and emerging lessons.

  Becky Buell, Ruth Mayne, September 2011

• The double challenge. Understanding the Challenge: Energy, climate change and development

  In support of a ‘Green Energy Revolution’ to simultaneously tackle the right to development and the climate crisis

  Swedish Society for Nature Conservation

• Degrowth and the supply of money in an energy-scarce world

  Ecological Economics xxx (2011) xxx–xxx. Elsevier.

  Richard Douthwaite, 2011

• Exploring Community Resilience

  Carnegie UK Trust

  Nick Wilding, 2011

• Zero carbon Britain 2030. A new energy Strategy: The second report of the Zero Carbon Britain project

  June 2010

  NEF

• Beyond Copenhagen: Common Ownership, Reparations, Degrowth and Renewable Energy Technology Transfer

  Kolya Abramsky, April 2010

• Energy cooperatives and local ownership in the field of renewable energy technologies: A literature review

  RiCC – research report 2010/4

  Anna Schreuer, Daniela Weismeier-Sammer, April 2010

• Enough is Enough Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

  O’Neill, D.W., R. Dietz, and N. Jones (editors). 2010. The report of the Steady State Economy Conference, Leeds, UK. Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (Arlington, Virginia, USA) and Economic Justice for All (Leeds, UK).

  Daniel W. O’Neill, Rob Dietz, Nigel Jones, 2010

  CASSE

• Resource Optimization Initiative (ROI). Activity Report 2010

  2010

  ROI

• A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development

  A big push strategy to ! ! Drive down the cost of renewable energy ! Ramp up deployment in developing countries ! End energy poverty ! Contribute to economic recovery and growth ! Generate employment in all countries ! and ! Help avoid dangerous climate change

  December 2009

  UNDESA

• Principles for Constructing Alternative Socio-economic Organizations: Lessons Learned from Working Outside Institutional Structures

  Review of Radical Political Economics. Volume (Year): 41 (2009)

  David Barkin, September 2009

• Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy eficient economy

  The issue of resource scarcity is back on the agenda. What should EU do about it?

  Raimund Bleischwitz, Michael Kuhndt, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Stefan Giljum, March 2009

  Wuppertal Institute, Germany

• Stability, participation and transparency in renewable energy policy: Lessons from Denmark and the United States

  Elsevier Policy and Society 27 (2009) 379–398

  Miguel Mendonça, Stephen Lacey, Frede Hvelplund, 2009

• What are the barriers and incentives for community-owned means of energy production and use?

  Energy Policy Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 4401–4405, Elsevier.

  Gordon Walker, December 2008

• Social Acceptance and Social Innovation in Wind Power Technology

  Energy Policy, 35, 2761- 2769.

  2007

• Innovation diffusion, public policy, and local initiative: The case of wood-fuelled district heating systems in Austria

  Energy Policy, 35, 1992-2008

  Madlener Reinhard, 2007

• The Middelgrunden Offshore Wind Farm. A Popular Initiative.

  2003

• Danish Experience in Wind Energy - Local Financing

  Working report for the WELFI project (Wind Energy Local Financing) coordinated by CLER (Comité de Liaison Energies Renouvelables), France with support from the EU SAVE Program.

  Gunnar Boye Olesen, Preben Maegaard, Jane Kruse, December 2002

2 Charter/Manifesto

• CAN Europe Manifesto for a Fossil-Free, Socially Just, and Climate-Neutral Union

• A REPowerEU for Energy Citizens Manifesto

  REScoop.eu

  April 2022

2 public contributions

• Eat the Sky: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork.

  TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL E. F. SCHUMACHER LECTURES, October 2008

  Anna Lappé, October 2008

  NEI

• Fifty Million Farmers

  Twenty-Sixth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures October 2006, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

  Richard Heinberg, October 2006

  NEI

7 articles

• exGKN FOR FUTURE: Italy’s first socially integrated factory

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, April 2023

  Jason Nardi, April 2023

  RIPESS Europe, RIES

• Defending and Deepening Democracy: The Role of the Food System

  Article from City of Collaboration, 4 March 2022

  Andreas Exner, Franziskus Forster, Lukas Kranzl, Christina Plank, Markus Schermer, March 2022

• Sailing and electric cargo in the Aegean and the Mediterranean: a pilot experiment

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - November 2021

  Georgia Bekridaki, November 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Dock Social Solidarity Zone

• Spain’s energy cooperatives lead charge to exploit solar power

  Article of The Guardian, 1 Sept, 2021

  Stephen Burgen, September 2021

  The Guardian

• How Indigenous Communities Are Building Energy Sovereignty

  Article of Yes! Mafazine, 18/08/2021

  Natalie Peart, August 2021

  Yes! Magazine

• It Was a Blighted City Block. But This Woman Is Turning It Into a Solar-Powered Ecovillage

  Article of Yes! Magazine, Dec 07, 2016

  Zenobia Jeffries, December 2016

  Yes! Magazine

• How One French Town Combines Welcome for Migrants, Ecology and Social Emancipation

  Article de Basta!, 30 mai 2015

  Olivier Favier, May 2015

  Basta!

2 organizations RIPESS & ODDs

• Energy as a democracy and communty engagement issue in Worcester

  2021

  RIPESS Intercontinental, RIPESS North America

• Alternative housing midel for regional Australia

  2021

  RIPESS Intercontinental, NENA

Web sites :

• Centre d’Etudes sur la Mondialisation, les Conflits, les Territoires et les Vulnérabilités (CEMOTEV)
• FEASTA - the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
• Ariel Salleh.info
• energies 2050
• Green et Vert
• Enercoop
• Energie partagée
• Association négaWatt
• Ethical markets
• Re: Common
• Sportello Ecoquo Firenze
• Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable energy
• energycities
• REScoop
• REScoop.eu
• Energies Citoyennes Locales et Renouvelables - ECLR
• Change the rules
• Public Futures - International database of De-privatised Public Services (Remunicipalisation)