Visualizing green capitalist renewable energy: Development and grassroots solar community alternatives in Puerto Rico

What is it about?

Green energy often is celebrated in mainstream environmental discourse; however, this project argues that shifting technologies also must involve thinking about some of the negative consequences of decarbonization. Accordingly, solar technology infrastructure and processes must also account for decentralization, democratization, and decolonization (what Catalina de Onis calls for the "4 D's" of energy justice) in situated cases and contexts. This essay examines community-based alternatives to solar "farms," via distributed rooftop solar, documented in a community-created film in Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico.

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Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash

Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash

Why is it important?

How society and communities transition to renewables is crucial to avoid replicating and creating new harms and injustices.