https://energy-democracy.net Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:03:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://energy-democracy.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cropped-edimage-1-32x32.jpg https://energy-democracy.net 32 32 https://energy-democracy.net/som-energia-the-first-energy-cooperative-which-provides-an-alternative-to-the-traditional-energy-suppliers/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:46:16 +0000 https://energy-democracy.net/?p=1050 To this end, the organisation founded a green energy supplier by the same name in 2011. Seven years later the cooperative counts more than 35.000 members from all over Spain and 55.000 contracts. Every member can share its membership with 5 people so they can have a contract and get energy from the cooperative, without…

The post Som Energia, Catalonia (Spain) first appeared on ENERGY DEMOCRACY.]]> https://energy-democracy.net/eu-france-accused-of-hijacking-africa-led-clean-energy-scheme/ Tue, 23 May 2017 13:17:21 +0000 https://energy-democracy.net/?p=986 In a resignation letter obtained by Climate Home, the top official of the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI), Youba Sokona, accused donors of a deliberate strategy to “railroad” Africans into rubber-stamping projects selected by Europeans. Matters came to a head in Conakry, Guinea, on 4 March, where the board approved 19 projects worth €4.8 billion ($5.2bn). By Sokona’s account, the Europeans present “managed…

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