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Feldheim, a 150-Person German Village, Powered Entirely by Renewables

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-how-many-electric-vehicles? dept.

Tree Hugga writes:

The electricity is sourced from solar panels, wind turbines, and heat from biogas. In addition they have a backup wood chip furnace. They also have a fairly beefy battery of 10 MW capacity to help level the fluctuations in production. The village runs its own grid and pays less for energy.

News articles: The Independent, The Huffington Post, GreenBiz.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by sudo rm -rf on Thursday December 03 2015, @12:13PM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Thursday December 03 2015, @12:13PM (#271311) Journal

    I hate to disappoint you, but the village has already got one (german: EQ-SYS GmbH [wikipedia.org])

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