Renewables for profit or public service ?
Electricity goes local
Renewables are supplying power in Europe but not always where and when it is most needed: there is a mistaken strategy of privatisation and cross-border generation and distribution.
by Aurélien Bernier
Ecologists have dreamed for decades of generating enough electricity from wind and sun to meet our energy needs, but solar and wind power didn’t really take off until the international climate negotiations at the end of the 1990s, followed by a sharp rise in fossil fuel prices in the past (...)
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