Continuing this post:
I just finished reading
Rifkin's Green New Deal. He talks about the success of public-private
partnerships in building out its infrastructure. It is based on
performance contracts by the private energy service company (ESCO). They
make the start-up investments and get ROI based on their performance.
However the infrastructure is owned, operated and maintained by the
public (local and/or state government) with the benefits going to
citizen users.
Rifkin has seen this sort of
partnership work in the EU, which can be verified by going to Smart Europe. He claims it changes the capitalistic dynamic of buyer-seller to
one of provider-user. And the end result is we the
people through our government own the infrastructure, not a private
company. And we generate our own energy and share with each other within
this energy commons.
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