This week John Farrell and Wade Underwood talk with Paul Spencer, President and founder of the Clean Energy Collective (CEC) in Carbondale, CO. The CEC is pioneering the process of delivering clean power-generation through medium-scale (mostly solar) facilities that are collectively owned by participating utility customers. In many ways, their community energy model is the “holy grail” because it has proven replicable in several places around the United States.
Paul Spencer and the Community Solar “Holy Grail”
By John Farrell, originally published by Institute for Local Self-Reliance
July 25, 2013
Tags: Community energy, decentralised power, solar power
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