Community-Centered Rural Electricity
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This talk focuses on the experiences working to scale deployment of community-scale renewable energy from internally displaced ethnic minorities in the Myanmar civil war, to rural villages in Africa, to a recent volunteer project developing a 150 kW solar project on the roof of Lopez Island school. The talk will explore territory and interactions between institutions of (electric) power and scrappy idealism.
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Chris Greacen's career started in the late 1980s writing for a do-it-yourself solar magazine started by weed-growing hippies in Northern California. For the past 18 years he has worked for the World Bank developing country programs and regulatory frameworks for solar mini grids in countries in Sub Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Along the way he got a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley. Chris lives on Lopez Island.