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Globally, people are reclaiming control over the energy sector, challenging market dominance, and envisioning a new energy landscape. Energy democracy emerges as a pivotal concept, fueling the demand for a socially equitable energy system that offers universal access, fair pricing, and secure, well-compensated, and unionized employment. This transformation is not only a collective aspiration but a reality in the making. Discover how energy democracy shapes a brighter, more inclusive energy future, rooted in the voices and actions of communities worldwide. Join us as we explore the path to a just, sustainable energy system, where power is in the hands of the many, not the few.

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  • 'Green' Multinationals Exposed How the energy transition is being hijacked by corporate interests

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Green Economy

    For over a century, energy multinationals have been wrecking the planet and exploiting people in pursuit of profit. Now, power producers and technology manufacturers are marketing themselves as ‘green’ to boost their reputation and benefit from public subsidies, grabbing lands, violating human rights and destroying communities along the way. Our investigation of fifteen ‘green’ multinationals conclusively shows that financial returns, not decarbonisation, is their primary business. ‘Green’ capital has taken over the energy transition, dictating its pace and blocking climate policies that hamper its profits. It is time to take on these greenwashing corporations and reclaim the entire energy sector through public ownership and democratic governance.Below you can find the full report, the common findings, and the individual profiles of the fifteen multinationals for download.Order print copy

    Report by

  • Energy Transition Mythbusters Unpacking the 6 policy myths that threaten decarbonisation

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Democratic Public Services
    Online report by
    • Lavinia Steinfort
    • James Angel
    Cover image Energy Transition Mythbusters

  • Our Future is Public Energy Democracy Movements Declaration

    • Remunicipalisation
    • Democratic Public Services
    • Energy Democracy
    Declaration
    cover image

  • Energy transition or energy expansion?

    Energy Democracy
    Report by
    • Sean Sweeney
    • John Treat
    • Daniel Chavez

  • Ecofeminism: fueling the journey to energy democracy

    Energy Democracy
    Article by
    Lavinia Steinfort

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Experts

All people

  • Lavinia Steinfort Project Coordinator

    • Democratic Public Services
    • Public Community Collaborations
    • Energy Democracy
    • Remunicipalisation

  • Daniel Chavez Knowledge Hub Researcher

    • Energy Democracy
    • New Politics
    • Democratic Public Services

  • Rowan Mataram Project Officer

    • Democratic Public Services
    • Public Community Collaborations
    • Remunicipalisation
    • Just Transition
    • Energy Democracy

  • Hamza Hamouchene Programme Coordinator - North Africa

    • Middle East and North Africa
    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition

Key documents

  • Energy Transition Mythbusters Unpacking the 6 policy myths that threaten decarbonisation

    • Energy Democracy
    • Just Transition
    • Climate Crisis
    • Democratic Public Services
    Online report by
    • Lavinia Steinfort
    • James Angel
    Cover image Energy Transition Mythbusters

  • Towards Energy Democracy Discussions and outcomes from an international workshop

    Energy Democracy
    Report by
    James Angel

  • Energy transition or energy expansion?

    Energy Democracy
    Report by
    • Sean Sweeney
    • John Treat
    • Daniel Chavez

  • Municipal actions for building energy democracy and energy sovereignty Municipalist Manifesto from 2020 onwards

    • Energy Democracy
    • Democratic Public Services
    Paper by
    • Catalan Network for Energy Sovereignty (Xse)
    • Transnational Institute

  • Change Finance, not the Climate

    • Just Transition
    • Energy Democracy
    • Green Economy
    • Climate Crisis
    • Finance
    Publication by
    Oscar Reyes

  • Cities versus Multinationals

    • Public Community Collaborations
    • Water Justice
    • Stop Corporate Impunity
    • Remunicipalisation
    • Energy Democracy
    Report by
    • Max Carbonell Ballestero
    • Déborah Berlioz
    • Igor Lasić
    • Kenneth Haar
    • Yago Álvarez Barba
    • Maria Maggiore
    • Benoît Collet
    • Olivier Petitjean
    • Rachel Knaebel
    • Hazel Sheffield
    • Maxime Combes
    • Barnabé Binctin
    • Guernica Facundo Vericat
    • Radek Vrábel
    • Olivier Hoedeman
    • Lina María González Correa
    • Mónica Vargas
    • Eleonora de Majo
    • Blanca Bayas Fernández
    • Alfons Pérez
    • Laia Forné
    • Nuria Alabao
    • Sol Trumbo Vila
    • Emma Avilés

The Energy Transition Myth - In conversation with Sean Sweeney

Podcast

In the State of Power podcast, we are very concerned with the state of power, because hardly anything has a greater impact on the future of our planet, than the ways in which we generate and consume energy.  Our guest on the program  believes that some of the optimism with regards to renewable sources of energy is ill-placed, and that we have to face the reality that we have a lot more to do before we can even begin to talk about a transition. 

Listen - 45:27 minutes

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