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🗓️ 15 August 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Known as the guru of distributed energy, John Farrell is the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its work on energy democracy. John is best known for his vivid illustrations of the economic and environmental benefits of local ownership of decentralized renewable energy.
On this podcast episode, John sheds light on how we came to develop and rely on our current centralized, top-down power grids today that are mostly driven by utility monopolies; why we need to not only shift towards renewable energy but also work towards energy democracy and the decentralization of power sources; why some utility companies may at the same time be supporting solar energy while lobbying against it; and more.
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1:21.9 | We can individually and collectively act in our own community, |
1:25.4 | in our neighborhoods to do something different than we're doing now, |
1:28.3 | whether it's like community composting or a community solar array or individually investing in solar, |
1:33.3 | but that we also have to collectively organize to change the rules of the system to make it easier for that kind of thing to happen. |
1:41.3 | That was John Farrell, also known as the guru of distributed energy. |
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