Giving Power to the People
- Posted by: Noella Boudart
- on July 18, 2009 at 6:00 pm
An activist advocating for a community’s energy rights turns entrepreneur reconceiving a city’s power structure.
What if you could choose between brewing your morning coffee by burning coal or harnessing solar power? For the past 15 years, Paul Fenn has worked to divert control of the energy supply away from the utility companies and into consumers’ hands. His core concept: Community Choice Aggregation, which gives residents in certain districts the legal authority to amass their individual buying…
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