Marcus Saul on the Island Power Energy Commons

Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E68n5c6xNs

Description

"Interview with Marcus Saul of Island Power, an energy company with incredible ideas that could be world-changing, in terms of building a new kind of (commons) economy.

Highlights:

• The genius of the use-credit obligations approach is that it can help small businesses avoid debt, by issuing vouchers for future produce or services, and selling them at a discount, to attract customers.

• In the case of energy, it means that communities will own their own energy infrastructure.

• This addresses the fundamental issue of cost. But it’s also about job creation, and putting the heart back into communities. With production via micro-grids, we can move to a decentralised system, with lots of social benefits on the back of it."

More information

• Transcript via https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/building-the-energy-commons-marcus-saul-of-island-power

Lowimpact.org: https://www.lowimpact.org/

Island Power: https://www.island-power.net/