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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Stephen Burgen in Barcelona

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution

Solar panels lined up in the Las Rozas solar park
Renewable energy is flourishing in Spain, a country with no gas or oil and very little coal of its own, but an abundance of sunshine. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

It began in the small Catalan town of Taradell as a plan to provide local people with allotments where they could grow their own food.

Four activists came together with the aim of promoting good environmental practices in local agriculture and business, as well as supplying renewable energy. The project, however, was about much more than growing vegetables.

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