November 3rd – 4th, 2016
1st World Community Power Conference

One year after Paris – five years after Fukushima: Community power for a renewable future!

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World Wind Energy Association Community Power, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies and Japan Community Power Association invite the world of community power cordially to attend the 1st World Community Power Conference 2016 taking place in Fukushima City on the invitation of the Mayor of the City of Fukushima. WCPC aims at bring leading community power proponents from Japan and the world together in order to discuss the role community power has to play in the global shift towards renewable energy. WCPC will also discuss a global community power strategy and its national and local implications.

WCPC will take place on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Paris climate change agreement in which all governments of the world have agreed to switch the global energy supply to greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050, meaning in fact 100 % renewable energy. WCPC happens on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident and of the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Community Power is usually defined as renewable energy installations initiated, operated and controlled by local citizens. Community power has a proven very positive impact on deployment rates of renewable energy and increases the economic benefits of renewable energies.

Fukushima Community Power Declaration


At the 1st World Community Power Conference in Fukushima, all the participants, more than 600 people from more than 30 countries, agreed to and decided to issue Fukushima Community Power Declaration.


Declaration
Definition

Community Power



Ownership

A local individual or a group of local stakeholders, whether they are farmers, cooperatives, independent power producers, financial institutions, municipalities, schools, etc., own, immediately or eventually, the majority or all of the renewable energy project.



Decision making

The community-based organization made up of local stakeholders has the majority of the voting rights concerning the decisions taken on the renewable energy project.



Distribution

The major part or all of the social and economic benefits of the renewable energy project are returned to the local community.

News


2016-10-24

In the first week of November 2016 the German Environment Agency, the German and the Japanese Ministry of Environment and the German Embassy, Tokyo have organized meetings and conferences together with various Japanese cities and prefectures to discuss the sustainable transformation of community and regional energy systems.

2016-09-06

Programme online and Registration is officially open for the 1st World Community Power Conference in Fukushima!

2016-03-11

Bonn/Tokyo/Fukushima, 11 March 2016 – WWEA Community Power, ISEP and JCPA invite the world of community power cordially to attend the 1st World Community Power Conference 2016 taking place in Fukushima City on the invitation of the Mayor of the City of Fukushima. WCPC aims at bring leading community power proponents from Japan and the […]

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