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23/1/2017

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My blog has been moved to:  https://energycommonsblog.wordpress.com/
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New year conference: remunicipalisation in germany

6/1/2017

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To celebrate the beginning of 2017 (some say the end of 2016), I will participate on Saturday 7 January to a conference in Groningen (The Netherlands) called "a future without the NAM". The focus will be on the potential remunicipalization of the gas utility (the NAM), which is exploiting the huge gas field under the province of Groningen and presently belongs to Shell and Exxon. The goal of remunicipalizing it would be to stop the gas extraction, which provokes a collapse of the ground and severe damages for houses and infrastructure. I will be intervening in the session on international alternatives and will be presenting the framework of energy as a commons and two examples of remunicipalization processes in Hamburg and Berlin. You can follow the session on the live stream of the Facebook page of the Transnational Institute.
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Een toekomst zonder de NAM (a future without the NAM)
January, Saturday 7 at 13:30
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TNI Facebook (for the live stream)


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Calling for a European Commons federation

30/11/2016

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Two weeks ago, I participated in the European Commons Assembly (ECA) in Brussels. I had the opportunity to present our policy proposal for a European energy commons in the EU parliament. The ECA lasted two days and has been both intense and very inspiring. I came back with one thought stuck in my mind: we should ground a European Commons Federation.
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Commoners occupy the EU parliament (photo Till Schweiger CC-BY-SA 2.0)

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Energy democracy course 03 - Energy and the state

24/11/2016

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Follow-up on the webinar series from the online course on energy democracy. Last week’s course was on the role of the State vis-a-vis the democratization of the energy system. This is one of my present topic of interest about which I feel that I have more to learn than to say! But after seeing the two very interesting presentations and looking at the material gathered for the course, I thought it would be a good idea to gather a few thoughts.
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Referendum for the re-municipalisation of the Berliner electricity grid and production. Image from RBB/24 article (source: imago/Stefan Zeitz)

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European commons assembly

14/11/2016

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On November 16, starts the first gathering of the European Commons Assembly in Brussels. I am going to present our draft policy proposal on Energy as a commons along with two other proposals in the EU parliament. Following the presentation, we will then discussed in order to see what policies would help to develop the proposal and how it can help expand the commons.
Here is the program of the two days: program

If you are interested to follow the discussions on Wednesday, November 16, you can look at the live stream and the program of Wednesday afternoon.

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Democratising energy course 01 - Energy colonialism

5/11/2016

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Theorethical surfaces needed to supply the whole world (Welt), the EU and Germany (D) in clean electricity from solar farms in the Sahara Desert (from N. May, Masters Thesis)
This week has started the online course "Democratising energy" launched by Platform London and the Transnational Institute. The first webinar was on "De-colonizing energy". I found this first theme extremely interesting, also because I never took time to think about the energy system in that perspective. Here I am going to go through what I learned from the course and the reflections it inspired.

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R&C03 – Community energy meets the Sustainable Development Goals

19/10/2016

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If the cooperative model is far from being a new one, it has been lately put in the spotlight as a key to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This set of 17 goals was designed by the United Nations to reduce poverty and inequality worldwide while also decreasing our environmental footprint by 2030. How does community energy fit into this scheme?

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Energy Democracy, the book

28/9/2016

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On September 27, I went to the presentation of the book "Energy Democracy  - Germany's Energiewende to renewables" from authors Craig Morris and Arne Jungjohann. I had meet Craig a few weeks before in Berlin, after following his articles in Renewables international and on the Germany Energy Transition Blog since over two years. These two websites have been a precious (and almost endless) source of information on the Energiewende and the story of community energy. The knowledge they accumulated over the years was put into a book, which I knew was about to come out. Was great to see it materialize!

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Democratising Energy: pilot online course

23/9/2016

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A bit of advertisement today, but for a good cause! The Transnational Institute (TNI) proposes a (free) 6 weeks online course to learn and share with people working on energy transitions around the world. It's gonna be from November 02 to December 14, 2016. Click HERE to join!
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Feminist activists in Asia Pacific make call for energy democracy / Photo credit http://apwld.org (from TNI's website)

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Thoughts from the Peer2value conference

14/9/2016

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During two days at the beginning of September, the commons collided with renewable energy. Lots of very interesting exchanges and new ideas on energy cooperatives, barriers and enabling environments, storage and infrastructure.

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