Community-Based Energy Development (C-Bed)
In rural areas, the Community-Based Energy Development model aims for enhanced economic agricultural or ranching benefits with the help of land lease or royalty payments obtained from utilizing the land for renewable energy generation. Ideally, C-BED projects are jointly owned and operated, including community members who come to share in the growth of such initiatives.
Communities export their hard earnest cash to providers of energy. Therefore by providing energy sources to targeted communities from locally available resources such as solar, wind, biomass or waste, Grid Cloud creates local jobs, thus creating local economic development opportunities. When established, unarguably the C-BED system brings about significant improvements in local trade, personal profits (which are shared by the members of the C-BED project) and the local/ regional tax base.
While communities have much to gain from community energy development, it is important to note that developers can also gain by working with communities. When communities are included and benefit from a local project, their participation in the process can lead to greater public support, ease in permitting, strengthened relationships with utilities, increased access to financing, and innumerable other outcomes that could add to a project developer’s potential for success.
At Grid Cloud, we maintain the belief that a series of smaller clean energy producing plants, fulfilling the distributed generation type model, is the future of power.
Who Qualifies for C-BED?
Grid Cloud Solutions Inc. continues to strive to introduce the C-BED platform to a number of communities, corporations and associations, including the pulp and paper, forestry, lumber, steel and mining communities. We are committed to assisting these and other industries in becoming more energy sufficient and independent, while significantly adding to their top and bottom lines through the sales of excess energies generated (through the support of government sponsored programs) and by assisting them in significantly reducing their energy consumption.
Of course the C-BED principals are also applied towards specific geographical regions including hamlets, townships and other organized vicinities.
To find out how we can make a big difference in your community or industry, please contact us today.
Sustainable Heroes
Dr. Luc Duchesne has received several awards for his work in the promotion of community approaches based on science and technology to resolve economic and social issues. He is renowned for his abilities in helping remote communities as far away as Kamchatka, Russia achieve sustainability through readily available resources.
Luc was featured on “First Scientists,” a Discovery Channel production based on the use of natural resources by First Nations.
Below, Dr. Duchesne poses with his “Science Award to Leaders in Sustainable Development” plaque, granted to him by the Government of Canada in acknowledgment of his leadership roles in the development of a sustainable future.
“The Grid Cloud team is dedicated to helping communities by giving them the necessary tools to become power-fully independent”- Dr. Luc Duchesne, CTO
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