Featured in Full picture on quality – 04-2022

Go local, be free

Various visions exist of the disruption that the transition to cleaner, cheaper electricity sources will have on energy markets and supply. Critics anticipate expensive chaos, while advocates see a powerful new network emerging. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and energy futurist Bill Nussey has put his thoughts together in a new book, “Freeing Energy,” and pv magazine USA’s Tim Sylvia met the author to discuss its findings.

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Tim Sylvia

07 Apr 2022

Bill Nussey’s 20kW ground-mounted PV array stands as a testament to his vision for distributed energy. | Image: pv magazine/Tim Sylvia

Passing through Hartwell, Georgia, at first one might find it hard to envision the town as the center of the evolving transition to renewable energy. In many ways, Hartwell presents the classic aesthetic of the American South: rolling fields dotted with quaint ranch houses, and farmsteads giving way to forests of tall pines standing in …

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