Main entry:

Taylor, Keith, 1977- author.

Title & Author:

Governing the wind energy commons : renewable energy and community development / Keith A. Taylor.

Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2019.
©2019

Description:

194 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Rural studies series ; Volume five

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index.
Introduction -- Community development & institutional fit -- Case study : the investor-owned wind farm -- Case study : the co-operative-owned wind farm -- Comparing the investor & co-operative owned firms -- Why not policy from below? -- Appendix A: Community survey informed consent -- Appendix B: Community wind interview guide -- Appendix C: Survey informed consent -- Appendix D: Wind energy interview guide -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Summary:

"Wind energy is often framed as a factor in rural economic development, an element of the emerging 'green economy' destined to upset the dominant greenhouse-gas-emitting energy industry and deliver conscious capitalism to host communities. The bulk of wind energy firms, however, are subsidiaries of the same fossil fuel companies that wrought havoc in shale-gas and coal-mining towns from rural Appalachia to the Great Plains. On its own, wind energy development does not automatically translate into community development. In Governing the Wind Energy Commons, Keith Taylor asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. He looks to the promising example of rural electric cooperatives, owned and governed by the forty-two million Americans they serve, which generate $40 billion in annual revenue. Through case studies of a North Dakota wind energy cooperative and an investor-owned wind farm in Illinois, Taylor examines how regulatory and social forces are shaping this emerging energy sector. He draws on interviews with local residents to assess strategies for tipping the balance of power away from absentee-owned utilities"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781946684844 hardcover
1946684848 hardcover
9781946684851 paperback
1946684856 paperback
electronic book
9781946684868

Subject:

Power resources.
Wind power.
Cooperative societies.
Ressources énergétiques.
Énergie éolienne.
Coopératives.
energy resources.
wind power.
cooperative stores (built works)
cooperatives (business enterprises)

Added entries:

Rural studies series (Morgantown, W.V.) ; v. 5.

Renewable energy and community development

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306602
Call No.: BIB 252155
Status: Available