Distributed Renewable Generation

By Sheila Bowers, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

June 4, 2013

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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

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Sheila Bowers

Sheila Bowers is a citizen activist with solardoneright.org. For several years she has been researching the economic, political, and legal biases that promote industrial-scale energy development while artificially impeding the growth of environmentally sound distributed generation.

Tags: Community energy, distributed power generation, energy-reality, Renewable Energy

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