Transforming Towards Clean and Renewable Energy
What is wrong?
Energy systems remain centralized, polluting and vulnerable to price volatility, supply disruptions and extreme weather.
Communities frequently pay for energy without having ownership, control or influence over how it is produced.
What is working?
- Community solar
- Local microgrids
- Energy storage
- Virtual power plants
- Cooperative ownership
- Building efficiency
- Demand-response systems
- Community-choice energy
- Distributed renewable generation
Seven discussion questions
- How can communities generate and own more of their energy?
- Which grid, financing and permitting barriers are slowing deployment?
- Who should own and benefit from the energy transition?
- How can storage and demand management strengthen reliability?
- How can renters and lower-income households participate?
- Which local facilities must remain operational during an outage?
- What is the first realistic community energy action?
Desired outcome
Identify one possible community energy or resilience project and its first three implementation steps.