Community energy news/2017

• An energy system vision for a community energy-led future? Dec 1, 2017...^[1]

November 2017[edit | edit source]

Solar power's popularity is on the rise in Saskatchewan, Nov 24^[2]

This Brooklyn, New York Clean Energy Experiment Is Going Global, Nov 20^[3]

Costa Rica's electricity generated by renewable energy for 300 days in 2017, Nov 22^[4]

Solar energy ‘like light from heaven’ for rural Nicaragua, Nov 13^[5]

New Zealand Aims to Transition to 100% Renewables by 2035, Nov 7^[6]

October 2017[edit | edit source]

Rural Rwanda is home to a pioneering new solar power idea, Oct 9^[7]

September 2017[edit | edit source]

Will Public Banking Bring More Clean Energy Programs to California? Sep 28^[8]

Solar grid keeps harvests high, hospitals lit in parched rural Zimbabwe, Sep 11^[9]

What about the people missing out on renewables? Here's what planners can do about energy justice, Sep 10^[10]

£1 billion solar programme for social housing tenants was launched in England and Wales, Sep 4^[11]

August 2017[edit | edit source]

Malawian NGO Community Energy to install 45KW solar energy grid for villages in Mchinji, Aug 18^[12]

Chile’s Energy Transformation Is Powered by Wind, Sun and Volcanoes, Aug 12^[13]

Mongoose Energy completes community energy deal to power 4,500 homes in England, Aug 7^[14] “By the community sector working with the private sector you will see more of it (battery storage) very soon,” Emma Bridge, Community Energy England^[15]

July 2017[edit | edit source]

Illinois's Cook County Helps Solar Energy Cooperatives Rise and Shine, Jul 19^[16]

Support local action now to build a cleaner energy future, Jul 14^[17]

June 2017[edit | edit source]

Hundreds of US mayors endorse switch to 100% renewable energy by 2035, Jun 26^[18]

Danish Energy Cooperative Lets Consumers Collectively Build Wind Turbines, Jun 21^[19]

How Residents of Hamburg Reclaimed the Power Grid, Jun 21^[20]

Local energy firms power 130,000 homes - the power of your community revealed, Jun 20^[21]

How Electricity Cooperatives in the US are Paving the Way for a Renewable Future, Jun 19^[22]

The Case for Local, Community-led Sustainable Energy Programs, Jun 19^[23]

Costa Rica Could Reach 300 Days Running on Clean Energy, Jun 17^[24]

Tilos, Greece: the first island in the Med to run entirely on wind and solar power, Jun 15^[25]

Fossil-free islands: A blueprint for sustainable development? Jun 14^[26]

Hop on the bandwagon: #GoSolar bus tours Delhi to make solar power cool, Jun 11^[27]

Solar power lights up the path to prosperity, Jun 12^[28]

World Bank announces project to bring renewable energy to 45,000 people in Vanuatu, Jun 1^[29]

May 2017[edit | edit source]

Blackout parties: how solar and storage made Western Australia farmers the most popular in town, May 15^[30]

How A Man With No Coding Experience Built An App That’s Bringing Solar Power To Yemen, May 8^[31]

April 2017[edit | edit source]

Victoria backs renewable energy community hubs with $900,000 investment, Apr 28^[32]

Off-grid living: it's time to take back the power from the energy companies, Apr 11^[33]

March 2017[edit | edit source]

El ayuntamiento crea Barcelona Energia para autoabastecerse de electricidad, Mar 30^[34]

Meet the First Nation Above the Arctic Circle That Just Went Solar, Mar 28^[35]

Solar power lights up remote villages in Rajasthan, Mar 27^[36]

Solar Experiment Lets Neighbors Trade Energy Among Themselves, Mar 13^[37]

What rural Alaska can teach the world about renewable energy, Mar 6^[38]

February 2017[edit | edit source]

Energy positive: how Denmark's Samsø island switched to zero carbon, Feb 23^[39]

See also[edit | edit source]

• Community energy news (latest), 2018-2021, 2017, 2014-2016
• Community energy
• Community energy by location (category)

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