What would a public and community-led energy system look like & how to ensure it's a just and democratic transition by https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu 19 October, Beyond Gas Conference en-us 2020-10-19 12:23:28 UTC 2020-10-19 16:12:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841643587 Social solar projects run by local cities and municipalities to power social housing, hospitals, schools etc]]> 2020-10-19 16:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841643587 Installing a solar system on your rooftop is a short and easy process where you only inform the authorities and you don't need special permits https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644528 2020-10-19 16:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644528 https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644692 firewall with big energy corporations ]]> 2020-10-19 16:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644692 https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644839 Analise energy necessities to live (degrowth), distributed & local production/consumption, 
ecofeminist perspective, people empowerment, energy democratisation, public scrutiny, climate/social justice]]> 2020-10-19 16:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644839 I doubt that the great capital will not allow us to transform so drastically, and I believe it requires a system change https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644936 2020-10-19 16:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841644936 cleaner air, cleaner environment, cheaper bills by empowering the people https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841646074 2020-10-19 16:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841646074 We need a stronger focus on energy independence (in Germany you'll have to sell your RES to the grid and then buy it back - a lot of projects are being killed by economics with such a framework) https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841649954 2020-10-19 16:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841649954 A (very) small but hopefully inspiring example from northern Italy (unfortunately only ITA and GER available) https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841652145 https://www.e-werk-prad.it/it/]]> 2020-10-19 16:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841652145 Buying back the grid? https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841653359 2020-10-19 16:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841653359 Municipalities give public land/rooftops of municipal buildings for inhabitants to invest into RE projects https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841654248 2020-10-19 16:03:39 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841654248 Allowing families/households to own 1kW from a community array (eg on a school rooftop) https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841654480 2020-10-19 16:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841654480 Large clean energy workforce. To get there, need to scale up education and training programmes at universities, trade schools, and other educational institutions. https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841655469 2020-10-19 16:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841655469 We also need to discuss energy reduction (also in terms of the existing economic model) = local energy production must serve only prioritized needed sectors (for example households, local/regional food production) https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841657837 2020-10-19 16:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841657837 There is a diversity of sources of energy and the municipality is not forced to buy e.g. heating from the only district heating plant in the city that is old and polluting. https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841659495 2020-10-19 16:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841659495 Energy produced by households is exchanged through a some sort of blockchain system https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841667141 2020-10-19 16:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841667141 If you want to ensure democratic control, local cooperatives would have to be integrated into structure of municipality (so that people get a choice to vote on the folks that make the decisions). Private cooperatives - though local - could create new energy monopolists in the future (where not everyone in the city/county will have a say) https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841669738 2020-10-19 16:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841669738 Can we reform enegy system through gradual transformation of ownership in capitalist system cidozbas https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841672513 Please sign the letter to keep fossil fuel in the ground

]]> 2020-10-19 16:07:29 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841672513 Implementation of smart grid technologies to deal with renewable energy intermittency, etc. https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841675571 2020-10-19 16:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841675571 https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841680436 Pushing for public ownership and going out from liberalization of energy is a first step. Once energy is public we can develop systems where community energy schemes are embedded in n
national and democratic decarbonized systems.]]> 2020-10-19 16:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/laviniasteinfort/r4lwdp1rf25jpqxu/wish/841680436