In October 2017, John Farrell gave a keynote address to the annual meeting and expo of AERO, a Montana organization with a similar mission of empowering communities to promote a sustainable economy. He addressed the widespread opportunity for clean energy in Montana, the shared desire of communities to capture that growing economic opportunity, and three ways communities can get started. The talk referenced several of ILSR’s published works:- The growing potential for states to serve their own electricity needs with wind energy and rooftop solar
- The challenges for community renewable energy and how to overcome them
- The promise of electric vehicles to lower costs and pollution, and enable more local power
- The threat of growing monopoly utility companies to community-based energy
- The role of rural electric cooperatives in helping or hindering local clean energy
- ILSR’s new Community Power Toolkit for energy democracy
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See the video here:
And the slides below:
AERO Presentation: How Communities Use Clean Energy to Build Local Power from John Farrell
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