You Say You Want a Revolution?


Some say it is the time for nuclear power — that it is safe, with new reactor technologies, and that we must have it to solve Climate Change. And yet the benefits of widespread, thorough conservation measures controlled at the local level could have an immense impact on energy supplies much faster, cheaper, and with less controversy than new nuclear power - without the weapons proliferation, without the radioactive storage problem.

What is needed today is the deployment of high-tech, fuel-free energy supplies available on today's open market using existing technologies — in combination with the simplest form of energy system optimization: energy conservation. Clean-tech supplements to the fossilized grid are available now to cities wanting to sieze the clean, local energy high ground. Aggressively greening and localizing your city's power supply is an achievable objective with Local Power.

Local Power staff article on Community Choice paradigm shift reprinted from Natural Gas & Electricity (Wileys, 2008).