http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/25/crowdfunding-local-power-campaign-gets-nearly-200000-indiegogo/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/25/crowdfunding-local-power-campaign-gets-nearly-200000-indiegogo/#comment-183503 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56774#comment-183503 Plus a community farm can come in at $2 / watt vs $5!! Yeehaww!!

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/25/crowdfunding-local-power-campaign-gets-nearly-200000-indiegogo/#comment-183497 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56774#comment-183497 This is a good way for communities to avoid paying for unprofitable fossil fuel plants that haven’t recouped their initial investment. Utilities with stranded assets will argue that, as their coal and gas investments were made in the community interest, the community should pay to retire their debt. This isn’t how free markets work, of course, and anyone so morally bankrupt as to have invested in polluting energy deserves to be bankrupted for real.

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