ABSTRACT
The global renewable energy revolution is well underway. The decentralized and distributed nature of renewable energy systems provides a unique opportunity for building a new progressive politics of the energy commons. Energy democracies are publicly and/or socially owned renewable energy systems that enhance human well-being, the autonomy of inclusive local economies and the integrity of nature. Energy democracies, in turn, are the most tangible and immediately realizable manifestations of an emergent just transition inspired in part by a sense of the commons. The more extensive the energy democracies become, the greater the chances that the emerging deep transition will have a just transition orientation.
