In this program, Bing and Bernie interview Paul Fenn and Peter Asmus.
"Paul Fenn has spent his career fighting to green our energy supply by transforming the industry's structure, creating Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, which lets a locality take over the sourcing of its own power. CCA may be reaching a tipping point in California: More than 50 communities, representing 20% of the state's privately provided electric load, are in the process of implementing the program, aiming to deliver 100% renewable electricity in Marin County, for instance, and 51% in San Francisco. "The whole point is to prove that a major city can go to 51% green in a very short period of time without any increase in rates," Fenn says. "If we can, this should spread virally." "
Peter Asmus, president of Pathfinder Communications, is an internationally known expert on energy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) matters. He is also a journalist, community organizer, musician, photographer and poet, a programmer on KWMR, and an advocate for local renewable energy and Locavolts.
Marin Clean Energy and Local Renewable Energy: How we can produce the electricity we use locally.
Monday, May 18, 2009