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Give the people who have to live near these machines a benefit from it, such as a monthly discount on electricity? Has this been tried?
by Fnoord 3y ago
Give the people who have to live near these machines a benefit from it, such as a monthly discount on electricity? Has this been tried?
- rootusrootus 3y agoSort of like the people who are willing to have a cell phone tower put on their property. Ugly, but the rent more than makes up for that.
- pyuser583 3y agoOr like oil - “black gold.”
- mattlondon 3y agoIt is not just where people live. People like to walk and hike and camp and holiday places, and sometimes they don't like it if their view is "ruined".
- Propelloni 3y agoSo called Bürgerbeteiligungsgesellschaften (citizen participation companies) are quite common in rural Germany. Basically a citizen of a concerned community can opt to become a shareholder of such a company and gets a yearly kickback from the proceeds. It's not quite that simple but that's the basic idea. The other form you find even more often is the so called Energiegenossenschaft (energy cooperative) which is organized like any other cooperative. The federal system of the FRoG promotes these local cooperatives over capital companies in certain areas, such as utilities. AFAIK, there is no model where you reap benefits without doing something first, ie. join a cooperative or buy shares.