Posted by: Windfair Editors
More female participation in community energy needed
Official Press Release WWEA:
Community energy: More women, more success
Above all, women like Greta Thunberg or Luisa Neubauer, as initiators of the Fridays for Future movement, have given important impetus to climate protection in the past months and years. Such a high participation of women in the community energy in North Rhine-Westphalia is not yet widely visible.
In the nationwide active community energy entities, the proportion of women is 29 percent, a slight increase compared to the 20 percent found a few years ago. This result comes from a study with which the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) and the State Association for Renewable Energies NRW (LEE NRW) are examining the situation of women in decentralized energy initiatives in North Rhine-Westphalia. "We are happy that more women have recently become involved in... ... More: Official Press Release WWEA
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