Appalachian Institute for Renewable Energy
Pioneering community-owned renewable energy
The raging wind policy war in North Carolina exposes a vast gulf in understanding, and in limited cases, the inability to carry on a civil discourse to explore difference. This has a polarizing effect on the discourse and creates a blind spot for the third way– “distributed generation” or community-based renewable energy. Certainly some favor
View the installation of Boone’s first Community Owned solar electric system on the roof of The Greenhouse via the below time lapse video. You can watch the complete build out of the solar electric panels in just 3 minutes and 7 seconds.
The Southern Appalachian region contains abundant and readily available wind, solar, and microhydro resources for producing home-grown, clean, and renewable energy. The Western North Carolina Renewable Energy Initiative (WNCREI) is an Appalachian State University Energy Center (ASUEC) project dedicated to helping create a sustainable energy future for our region. The WNCREI is proud to host