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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. An Unlikely Couple: Fintry and Oldenburg

Author : Arwen Colell

Published in: Alternating Current – Social Innovation in Community Energy

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

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Abstract

Although quite different at first glance, Fintry Development Trust, the pioneer of community energy involvement in the Scottish Lowlands, and olegeno, the failed attempt of a citizen-led take-over of the power grid in a city of 165.000 in Northern Germany, the projects’ innovation biographies show similarities.

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Footnotes
1
I19: 31.
 
2
Today, FDT includes tw other subsidiaries: Fintry Community Energy which owns and operates a district heating scheme, and Fintry Renewable Energy Distribution which runs the SMART Fintry project (FDT 2018a.
 
3
I19: 104–105.
 
4
A third applicant can be neglected here, because of early drop out (Kuchta 2011b).
 
5
While cooperative membership of olegeno is not confined to locals, it has remained much more local in its configuration than in the case of EWS.
 
Metadata
Title
An Unlikely Couple: Fintry and Oldenburg
Author
Arwen Colell
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Alternating Current – Social Innovation in Community Energy

Print ISBN: 978-3-658-32306-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-32307-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32307-3_7