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"Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere"
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Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere
In Nepal, local shareholding in a hydropower project changed how communities regarded it.

Donald Trump hates clean energy.
Obviously, the president hates lots of things:
Immigrants, the media, NATO, and sound monetary policy, to name just a few.
But of all Trump’s many grievances, none is quite so petty and pathological as his loathing of wind energy.
The attacks on solar panels and electric cars can be chalked up to his belief in the holy gospel of hydrocarbons.
-- But the windmill thing is personal.
Independent journalist Philip Bump traces …

Trump wants to bribe energy companies to kill wind energy
Burn, baby, burn.

Trump wants to bribe energy companies to kill wind energy (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-wind-farm-settlements
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p25#a260318p25

"Offshore wind’s cloudy day had a silver lining"
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Offshore wind’s cloudy day had a silver lining
The country’s largest offshore wind farm started generating electricity Monday as another developer accepted nearly $1 billion to ditch two planned

"Network Rail signs PPA for renewable electricity from Welsh offshore wind farm"
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Network Rail signs PPA for renewable electricity from Welsh offshore wind farm
Network Rail will soon power most of its depots, offices and stations with renewable energy generated at RWE’s Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm, through a five-year power purchase agreement (PPA).