Articles by John Farrell
John Farrell is the author of Energy Self-Reliant States and a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where he focuses on renewable energy policy.
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300 Reasons Utilities Should Do These 3 Things For Distributed Solar
In the next decade, over 300 gigawatts of unsubsidized solar energy could be deployed across the United States, generating electricity for the same or less than retail electricity prices. But […]
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How a City Can Get More Clean, Local Energy
Like many cities attempting to solve climate change at a local level, Minneapolis is finding the prospect more challenging that it may have imagined. The lion’s share of emissions (two-thirds […]
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Germany has more solar power because everyone wins
Here's the real reason for solar's big success in cloudy Deutschland.
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Barriers to Distributed Renewable Energy [slideshow]
The following presentation by ILSR Senior Researcher John Farrell examines the five major barriers to the expansion of community-based and conventional distributed renewable energy. The barriers range from the challenge of raising […]
