Empowering Electricity
Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Power Resources, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Economic Conditions, Science, Biological Sciences, Environmental Science
| Author: | Julie L. MacArthur | ISBN: | 9780774831468 |
| Publisher: | UBC Press | Publication: | July 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | UBC Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Julie L. MacArthur |
| ISBN: | 9780774831468 |
| Publisher: | UBC Press |
| Publication: | July 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | UBC Press |
| Language: | English |
Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.
Canada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.
