Huhne’s great power reform lacks the local dimension

15 July 2011: Stephen Tindale of the Centre for European Reform, a former government environmental adviser and director of Greenpeace UK, blogs for endsreport.com highlighting that the main weakness of both the renewables roadmap and the electricity market reform white paper is the lack of articulation of the potential role of local government.
Stephen and co-author Prashant Vaze have first hand experience of what can be done, having recently published a report, Repowering Communities: Small-scale Solutions for Large-scale Energy Problems, examining in detail how cities, communities and local authorities from across Europe and North America have driven reductions in energy use and rolled out small scale, community level solutions.