The Energy Solidarity Co-op (ESC) is a multi-stakeholder cooperative providing energy consulting services and incubating community power. There are three types of participating members: workers, consumers and sustainers.
Our worker members are energy practitioners offering technical and policy-oriented services in energy management, energy planning, and renewable energy deployment to a range of commercial, institutional, and industry clients. In addition, we offer tools and services that support the development and management of community power projects for our consumer members.
Our consumer members are community individuals and organizations coming together to own and operate renewable energy systems, such as solar photovoltaics, within their neighborhoods. Instead of focusing on single households, our members bring together their collective interests and potential.
Our sustainer members are community investors who can browse and select community power projects to support through a crowd-funding model. Taking an innovative approach that combines financial, technical and organizational resources from these three member types, the ESC is building community power from the ground up.
1. energy asset map
2. co-op power toolkit
3. demo power project
This is where we will be launching our crowd-funding platform in 2013, an opportunity for people like you to become sustainer members of the ESC. Your investment will be put to hard work by providing part of the necessary capital to finance individual projects. Sourcing local labour and involving strong regional partnerships, cooperative power is everyone's business!
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We are committed to building a movement of energy independence and economic justice. We envision a world where community energy planning, household energy efficiency, and neighborhood power production are a part of everyday life in cities.
ESC is building towards this reality by developing and supporting community power in low-income and marginalized communities through technical, financial, social, and educational support.
Stay tuned for bios of our dynamic team members. To learn more, download our two-page summary here.
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