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Community Power• What is it?• Community Ownership• Community Wind

Landowner, Limited Partnership, or Cooperative

• Economic Benefit• Examples• Strom (Electricity) Rebels

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org

Community Power is About Peopleand Opportunity


What is Community Power?


• LocalResponsible to the Community

• Locally OwnedCooperatives, Farmers, Homeowners

Fuchskaute, Germany

Community Ownership• Greater Acceptance• More Power More Quickly• More People Involved Locally• More Money Locally• More Jobs Locally


Jutland, Denmark

What is Community Wind?• Local

Rooted in and Responsible to the Community

• Locally OwnedCooperative, Limited Partnership, or Farmer-Owned

• Commercial-Scale Generation• Small Projects Making a Big Difference


Co-Op & Farmer-Owned Wind

Source: Dave Toke, University of Birmingham, 2005, 2008


Farmer Co-op Corporate

The Netherlands 60% 5% 35%

Germany 10% 40% 50%

Denmark 64% 24% 12%

Great Britain 1% 1% 98%

Spain 0% 0% 100%

Community Wind Economic Impact


Community Wind (5%)

Community Wind (8%)

Corporate Wind

Value Added $1,300,000 $640,000 $250,000

Jobs 14.5 8.2 4.3

Arne KildegaardUniversity of Minnesota, Morris

From Operations

Kennemerwind Co-opNoord Holland

• 18 x 80 kW• 10 Owned by Co-op• 650 Members• 1.5-2 Million kWh/yr• www.kennemerwind.nl (2013)


WieringemeerNoord Holland

• 5 x 600 kW• Co-owned

1/2 by Two Farmers1/4 by NEG-Micon1/4 by Utility


Middelgrunden Co-op København

• 20 x 2 MW Off-shore• 1/2 Owned by Co-op• 1/2 Owned by Utility• 8,500 Investors• €570 per Share• Visible from

Christiansborg Palace

©Bonus a/sPaul Gipe, wind-works.org

Middelgrunden Coop København

www.middelgrunden.dk (2013)Paul Gipe, wind-works.org

Baywind Co-op (GB)• 5 x 44 m, 500 kW• 43% from Local Sources• One Person, One Vote• 0.5% of Profit Paid to Local Energy

Conservation Trust Fund• 6% Rate of Return

Ulverston, Cumbria, EnglandPaul Gipe, wind-works.org

German Co-ops (Bürgerbeteiligung)• +200,000 Own Shares• 80% Schleswig-Holstein• 90% Nordfriesland Amt

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgSchauinsland, Germany

RegioWind Germany• 510 Owners, 2003• 6 x 1.8 MW Enercon

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org http://t3.regiowind.de (2013)

RegioWind Germany


Paderborn Bürgerbeteiligung

• 4 Wind Plants• 17 Companies• 80 x V66 & E66• 110 MW• €140 Million• 780 ha (2,000 ac)• All Companies Local

Paying Local Taxes

Enercon E66

Schlalacher Bürgergeteiligung

• Pacht €18,000/year/turbine• Pacht €22,000/year/turbine >16 years• 20% Goes to Landowner with Turbine• 0.75% to Foundation for Local

Community Projects (Mannechor, etc.)• 16 E82, Brandenburg• Energie-Kommune des Monats


http://www.kommunal-erneuerbar.de/de/energie-kommunen/2010/dezember.html

Toronto, Ontario

Toronto’s WindShare. . . A Pioneer in Canada


WindShareToronto, Canada• First Urban Turbine in N.A.• Co-Owned

WindShare Co-op450 Members

Toronto Hydro• Prominent Location• Highly Visible• Highly Popular


WindShareToronto, Canada

WindShareToronto, Canada


Map © Google.com

. . . And North America

Paul Gipe & Assoc.

Toronto WindShareAnnual Shareholders Meeting


Community WindWind Energy

As If People Matter

WindShare Cooperative Annual Shareholders Meeting, Toronto, Canada


Community Wind--The Third Way

• No--Time to Get It Right• It’s Not Easy Here

Frustrating? Yes!• Only the Beginning• Join the Rebellion

Is Italy Being Left Behind?

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Chateau de Lastours, France

Electricity Rebellion--Democratizing Electricity

Generation with Renewable Energy

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Wörstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgFriedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog, Germany

Electricity Rebellion--the Rallying CryRenewable Energy “is a local resource.

It is our resource. And we want to make money from it.”--Wolfgang Paulsen (Stromrebelle)

Rebel Agenda• We Want Renewable Energy• We Can Do It Ourselves• We Bring Our Own Risk Capital

and Invest in Our Own Region

• We Accept the Change in the Landscape that Results


Hans-Detlef Feddersen on the Bürgerwind Movement.

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog, Germany

Ownership of Renewables in Germany 2010

• 51% Farmers & Individuals• Own 27,000 MW!

Wind, Solar, & Biogas

• US Wind: ~60,000 MWOwned by Utilities, Subsidiaries, &

Developers

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Wörstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

German Ownership of Renewables in 2010: 53,000 MW

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgwww.unendlich-viel-energie.de

Individuals

Farmers

Developers

UtilitiesInvestment Funds

Industrial

Others

40%

11%

14%

13% 11%

9%1%

German Ownership of Wind in 2010: 27,000 MW

Individuals

Farmers

Developers

UtilitiesInvestment Funds

Industrial

52%

2%

21%

7%16%

2%

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgwww.unendlich-viel-energie.de

14,500 MW~$30 Billion!

Stromrebellen (Electricity Rebels)• Democratizing Generation• Creating Local Investment• Creating Local Jobs• Creating Opportunity--and Hope• Denmark, Germany, and

Italy, France, Minnesota, Ontario and . . . ?


Elements of SuccessfulElectricity Rebels

• Transparency• Cooperation & Compromise• Creative Problem Solving• “Together, We’re Strong”

Hans-Detlef Feddersen on the Bürgerwind Movement.

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Rockenhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Meet the Rebels in Denmark

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Tre Kroner, Kobenhavn, Denmark

Lynetten Co-op København

• 7 x 600 kW• 4 Owned by Co-op• 3 Owned by Municipal Utility


. . . Lynetten Wind Co-op


Lille Havfrue, København

Lynetten Cooperative København

www.lynettenvind.dk (2013)Paul Gipe, wind-works.org

Anton BroThyborøn-Harboøre Vindmøllelaug

• Near Offshore--2003• Share Cooperative• 4 x 2 MW• 35 Million kWh/yr• All Information Public

on the Web


Thyborøn-Harboøre Vindmøllelaug

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org www.roenland.dk (2013)

Meet Germany’s Jeffersonian RebelsPowering an Energy Revolution

• The Power of Community OwnershipLocal, Distributed, Democratic

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgNico Petersen, Solar Park Rodenäs

Josef Pesch, Fesa• 45 MW• 60 million kWh/yr• Just One of Many



Ursula Sladek, EWS(Elektritzitätswerke Schönau)

• 31,000 Customers• Hydro, Solar, & Wind

Hans-Heinrich AndresenLocal People Helping Local People

• Manages 16 Wind Farms• in 16 Villages• All Locally Owned

15 Owners in Smallest400 Owners in Largest

• Now Planning Their Own Transmission Line


Meet Hans-Detlef FeddersenPioneer in the BürgerWind Movement

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog, Germany

Bürger Windpark Lübke-Koog

• 176 inhabitants• 1,350 ha• 49.5 MW Wind• 95% of Households


Bürger Windpark Lübke-Koog

• Wind• Solar• Biogas

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog, GermanyPaul Gipe, wind-works.org

The Farmers of Nordfriesland• 0.5% of California

2,000 km2; 165,000 Population• 850 MW of Wind

90% Community-Owned6,000 Investors (4% of Population)<1% of Land Area

• 1.3 TWh/yrMore than Altamont, More than San Gorgonio~Tehachapi Pass€100 million ($150 million)/yr

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Friedrich-Wilhelm-Lübke-Koog, Germany

Meet the Entrepreneur

• Matthias Willenbacher• juwi• 1,000+ Employees• . . . And Growing

Who Started a Revolution in His Family’s Backyard

• Willenbacher Farm• Schneebergerhof, Rheinland-Pfalz

Where the Rebels Work

Paul Gipe, wind-works.orgJuwi, Wörstadt, Germany

Meet Heinrich Bartelt--Revolutionary Leader

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org“Lupinus” or Lupine

Meet the Rebel Mayor of DardesheimBürgermeister Rolf-Dieter Künne

• Proud of Männerchor• Proud of Brass Band• Proud of Wind & Solar

100% Renewable Energy


Meet Adam Twine--Westmill Coop• 6.5 MW Wind: 5 x 1.3 MW• 3.6 MW Solar PV

Paul Gipe, wind-works.org Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England

Community Poweris also about Faith in Yourself

and in Your CommunityYes, You Can Do This. . .

You Don’t Have to be Danish, German, or French


Community Wind Links

• Germany• http://www.kommunal-erneuerbar.de/• http://www.dgrv.de/en/home.html• http://www.energiegenossenschaften

-gruenden.de/start0.html• http://www.wind-energie.de/en


Community Wind Links• USA• http://www.windustry.org• Canada• http://www.trec.on.ca/• http://www.ontario-sea.org/• http://www.cpfund.ca/• France• http://www.enercoop.fr/• Denmark• http://www.dkvind.dk/



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