Power From the People in The Nelson Daily
November 26, 2012
PCI’s Community Resilience Guide Power From the People was cited in this article on local energy action in The Nelson Daily.
From the article:
Cheap energy is becoming a distant memory, so what’s the solution to both escalating costs and spiralling usage?
As expounded by Herman Scheer – the architect of Germany’s feed-in tariff system that made his country a leader in renewable energy use – we need an energy system that has hundreds of thousands of owners instead of a few.
In other words, we need to democratize our energy system so it is “of the people, by the people, and for the people”.
Energy expert and author Greg Pahl adds a vital fourth description – “from the people” – and we now have a growing number of such examples in Nelson.