Current Distributed Renewable Energy Rural and Urban Communities

This chapter reproduces some selected implemented and planned renewable energy communities: rural, remote and urban. It should be pointed out that many more communities have been established across the continents. We tried to include most of the continents where information was available through the Internet. The supplies of water, electricity, gas, heat and energy for transportation have in common the fact that they are all daily necessities for domestic consumers, as well as for industry and public sector institutions. Therefore, it is the case in many countries that the same company, often a municipal company, may have supplied all these services for several decades, a process which has generally worked to everyone's satisfaction.