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.
