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Technology Horizons ProgramInstitute for the Future

May 26, 2011



May 26, 2011

new paradigms for planning, generation, and

ownership

energy localism

Lyn Jeffery | Program Director






power goes local

• Community planning• Situated generation


community energy planning



transition towns


energy descent

“The continual decline in net energy supporting humanity … a future scenario in which humanity has successfully adapted to declining net fossil fuel energy availability and has become more localized and self-reliant …”


energy descent plans


local decision-making

• Community choice aggregation


situated energy generation



Decentralized generation



20 megawatts<



20 megawatts<

Close to point of consumption




local energy assessment




May 26, 2011



May 26, 2011

new paradigms for planning, generation, and

ownership

energy localism

Lyn Jeffery | Program Director