Governing the Wind Energy Commons: Renewable Energy and Community Development - Couverture rigide

Taylor, Keith

 
9781946684844: Governing the Wind Energy Commons: Renewable Energy and Community Development
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ISBN 10 : 1946684848 ISBN 13 : 9781946684844
Editeur : West Virginia University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging “green economy” destined to upset the dominant greenhouse- gas-emitting energy industry and deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind energy firms, however, are subsidiaries of the same fossil fuel companies that wrought havoc in shale-gas and coal-mining towns from rural Appalachia to the Great Plains. On its own, wind energy development does not automatically translate into community development.

In Governing the Wind Energy Commons, Keith Taylor asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. He looks to the promising example of rural electric cooperatives, owned and governed by the 42 million Americans they serve, which generate $40 billion in annual revenue. Through case studies of a North Dakota wind energy cooperative and an investor-owned wind farm in Illinois, Taylor examines how regulatory and social forces are shaping this emerging energy sector. He draws on interviews with local residents to assess strategies for tipping the balance of power away from absentee-owned utilities.

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À propos de l'auteur

Keith A. Taylor is community economic development specialist faculty in the department of human ecology at the University of California, Davis. He holds a PhD in human and community development from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Éditeur
West Virginia University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1946684848
ISBN 13 
9781946684844
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
180
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ISBN 10 :  1946684856 ISBN 13 :  9781946684851
Editeur : West Virginia University Press, 2019
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