Thursday, November 18, 2021
The silent strength of Indigenous renewable energy micro-grids
For the first time since the 1970s, silence descended on the tiny, isolated village of Old Crow in Canada’s Arctic in August. For generations, the community of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in the Yukon, about 100 kilometers east of the Alaskan border, had suffered the incessant drone of diesel-powered generators to meet its electricity needs...