Empowering Electricity

Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Power Resources, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Economic Conditions, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science
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Author: Julie L. MacArthur ISBN: 9780774831468
Publisher: UBC Press Publication: July 13, 2016
Imprint: UBC Press Language: English
Author: Julie L. MacArthur
ISBN: 9780774831468
Publisher: UBC Press
Publication: July 13, 2016
Imprint: UBC Press
Language: English

Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.

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Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.

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