Full Title: Advantage Local: Why Local Energy Ownership Matters
Author(s): Katie Kienbaum, John Farrell, and Matthew Grimley
Publisher(s): Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Publication Date: June 20, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
With soaring energy costs for American families, electric grid-induced fires burning up the West Coast, and the looming threat of power blackouts, the need for equitable, affordable, and resilient local clean energy has never been clearer.
Today, corporate utilities and Wall Street control much of the country’s clean energy infrastructure. They prioritize profits over people, keeping many of the benefits of clean energy for themselves. But if households and communities owned more of this clean energy, we could maximize the positive local impacts while putting power back in the hands of people to meet their own energy needs. This melds neighbors into a political movement that can push to rapidly transform our extractive energy system into one based on democratic, decentralized renewable energy — an essential tool in the fight against climate change.