From local island energy to degrowth? Exploring democracy, self-sufficiency, and renewable energy production in Greece and Spain

Abstract

The energy sector is at the center of the current economic system, and of literature and activism on degrowth, which questions the sustainability of current models of energy use. Local and small-scale energy systems may have the potential to reduce energy and resource consumption and to advance degrowth-related ideals of energy democracy, self-sufficiency, and local production (...)