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Progressive policies for a sustainable energy future, Paul Pipe AB Speaking Tour

 

Paul Gipe has worked with wind energy since 1976. He is best known for his advocacy of wind energy and for his articles and books on the subject. Paul has written extensively about renewable energy for both the popular and trade press, has consulted for utilities and research groups across Europe and North America and is a long-time campaigner for sustainable energy policies that engage those communities where renewable power systems are built including communities, land-owners, farmers, aboriginal communities and individual home owners. nd Ed. 2009)

In 2004, Gipe launched a campaign to bring electricity feed laws back to North America. The campaign has grown into a continent-wide grassroots movement that has put renewable energy feed-in tariffs on the political agenda in Canada and the US and was instrumental in the effort that lead to Ontario’s Green Energy Act, Canada’s most progressive renewable energy policy. Paul will be in Alberta to discuss what opportunities individuals and policy makers have to develop renewable power at a provincial, municipal and individual level and what policies are needed to get there.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association gave him its Individual Leadership Award in 2009 for his work on Ontario's groundbreaking system of Advanced Renewable Tariffs. In 2008 the World Wind Energy Association presented Gipe with their World Wind Energy Award. In 2005 the Kern-Kaweah chapter of the Sierra Club awarded him the Sierra Club Cup, the chapter's highest honor. In 1998 the World Renewable Energy Congress honored him as a "pioneer" in renewable energy. And in 1988 the American Wind Energy Association named him as the industry's "person of the year".

Some of his books include:

Wind Energy Basics: A Guide to Home- and Community-scale Wind Energy (2

Le Grand Livre de l'Eolien (2007)

Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, & Business (2004)

Wind Energy Comes of Age (1995)

Paul may be available for meetings or lectures during his tour to the following locations (please contact Tim Weis: mailto:timw@pembina.org to organize):

Tuesday September 21 – Calgary

Wed. Sept 22 (AM) – Calgary

Wed. Sept 22 (PM) – Edmonton (public lecture@ Grant MacEwen college presented by the Solar Energy Society of Canada and the Pembina Institute)

Thurs. Sept 23 (AM) – Red Deer

Fri. Sept 24 (AM) – Red Deer

Fri. Sept 24 (PM) – Edmonton