Qvinnovindar: Feeding Three Million Kilowatt Hours Into the Grid Each Year

Published on February 1, 2021

What would a prosumer-friendly policy achieve? The Financing and Deploying Clean Energy participant who proposed that direction talked to an entrepreneur whose co-op feeds wind energy into Sweden's electricity system. Wanja Wallemyr's experience outlines what a grid full of prosumers can mean for power and empowerment.

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Walking the Walk: A Memo Outlining Incentives for Women-Powered Energy Storage in the European Union

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Why should "prosumers" - individuals who make electricity for others to purchase- encounter brakes on their output in European Union policy? In this memo, which the author wrote first in the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, the case emerges for releasing female prosumers' entrepreneurial energy. A linked interview with a leading prosumer shows what the ideas here can unleash.Read more

Of Standards, Slim Senate Edges, and Seesaws of Executive Action

February 9, 2021
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