Over 90 percent of US power generation comes from large, centralized, highly polluting, nonrenewable sources of energy. It is delivered through long, brittle transmission lines, and then is squandered through inefficiency and waste. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Communities can indeed produce their own local, renewable energy.
In this webinar two community clean power visionaries, Lynn Benander of Co-op Power, a 450-member owned renewable energy cooperative in New York and New England, and Lyle Estill, founder of Piedmont Biofuels, a community scale biodiesel producer, talk about how it is done and answer questions. These are just two of the inspiring projects covered in the Community Resilience Guide Power From the People.
Co-op Power is a 450-member owned renewable energy cooperative in New York and New England, with an emphasis on local and regional organizing to build a multi-class, multi-racial movement for a sustainable and just energy future. Piedmont Biofuels is a community scale biodiesel producer which collects fats, oils, and greases from its region, and converts them into biodiesel fuel which it then provides to its 400 member cooperative. Piedmont is a certified B Corporation, is accredited by the National Biodiesel Board as a BQ9000 producer, and is certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials out of Switzerland.
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This conversation is the second in a a series of Community Resilience Chats hosted by Post Carbon Institute, Transition US, and Chelsea Green Publishing. Watch #1 Rebuilding the Foodshed.