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Democratising Energy Peer Learning Course: Overview

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:00:48 +0000

The goal of the course was to bring together practitioners and experts to think through a radical rethinking of our energy systems envisioning what they could look like – in terms of politics, economics and our daily lives. Over 80 people from 35 countries joined the course. As an archive, we have uploaded the preparatory…

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Session 1: Decolonising energy

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:46:41 +0000

Preparatory material Our ideas for a good energy system need to address who controls and profits from energy resources. Oil, gas, and coal corporations take resources and wealth from the global South, benefiting the North and elites in the South. And the droughts, floods, and loss of farmland brought on by climate change hit some of the world’s most…

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Session 2: Community and cooperative control

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 11:36:07 +0000

Presentations In this second session, we talked about community-controlled or co-operative energy generation projects. Our guest speaker for this session was Melina Miyowapan Laboucan-Massimo, a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Alberta, Canada, and the founder of a pioneering solar generation project, owned by the First Nation. Watch this 3-minute video to catch…

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Session 3: State control – municipal and national

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:24:28 +0000

Presentations For this seminar, we interviewed Gonzalo Casaravilla, President of the Board of the Uruguayan national electricity company, UTE, who has been responsible for the transition to renewable energy in the South American country. In the interview he explains how Uruguay succeeded in rapidly scaling up renewable energy generation, its efforts to get universal access,…

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Session 4: Labour and trade unions in the energy transition

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:22:12 +0000

Presentation Our guests this week were Sean Sweeney and Maité Llanos from the international group Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED who also participated in the webinar. Here is a video presentation and interview with Sean, explaining what TUED does and some of the thinking behind the project. Webinar The webinar featured contributions from Sean…

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Session 5: Energy poverty and access

energydemocracy — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 08:05:28 +0000

Presentation Dorothy-Grace M. Guerrero shared on the need for a gendered perspective on energy justice. She discussed her work with WoMin — African Women Unite Against Destructive Resource Extraction. A few things you will find in the interview (12.5 minutes long): 1. Why women accessing energy for themselves and their families is seen as a “labour of…

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Session 6: Technology for the energy transition

energydemocracy — Tue, 09 May 2017 09:11:30 +0000

Presentation To initiate the discussion, we asked Lorenzo Kristov, an innovative thinker at the heart of California’s energy sector to share his perspectives. He argued strongly against adopting new technologies without a clear vision of what kind of energy system he want, but also comes out in favour of a decentralised distributed model that he…

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