Felix Stalder on Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:14:12 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Barcelona Energia flicks the switch |
[This strikes me as a winning formula. Connect the issue of sovereignty with a program for clean energy. There is a deep, and quite justified, fear among large segments of the population (at least in Europe) of having lost control over out individual and collective destiny. Neoliberal globalization gutted democracy and made people's lifes dependent on global flows that they cannot control and often don't make sense. The costs of denying climate change is mounting, you need someone as extreme and stupid as Trump to do it. But the repressed is never gone, but channeled into something else. So, neoliberal globalization as an ideology (not so much as a practice) is dead. The traditional centrist parties (right and left) bought so deeply into it, that they have nothing to offer as an alternative At the moment, this is all fused into isolationist nationalism and xenophobic hatred against immigrants. But the two projects -- renewal of democracy for regaining some measure of sovereignty -- and transition towards cleaner energy can mobilized differently. And this is an example of how!] Barcelona Energia flicks the switch | Info Barcelona 30/06/2018 20:00 h https://www.barcelona.cat/infobarcelona/en/barcelona-energia-flicks-the-switch_683855.html Besides saving money, the public distributor aims to head the transition towards energy sovereignty in the city by backing renewable local power generation and encouraging more responsible and rational energy consumption. Barcelona Energia will be distributing the power generated at the plants it currently manages. These are: 41 solar panels installed on municipal buildings, the energy recovery plant in Sant Adrià de Besòs, and the biogas plant at the Garraf landfill site. Independence from major power companies The distribution of 100% green local energy breaks the dependency on the current electrical oligopoly and combats climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions produced by transporting the energy we consume, as well as reducing energy loss which occurs during the same transport process. By making its services available to the public from January 2019 the company will be taking another step forward in promoting a new energy culture in the city, offering advice for users to increase consumption efficiency and also promoting the self-generation of solar energy. The prevision is that the energy could be supplied to 20,000 families in the metropolitan area. Barcelona Energia is the largest 100% public power distributor in the Spanish state and is already inspiring other initiatives by local administrations, such as those by the city councils in Cádiz and Pamplona. -- |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| http://felix.openflows.com |OPEN PGP: https://pgp.key-server.io/search/0x0BBB5B950C9FF2AC
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