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Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) is a community-based model of development based on energy conservation and community-scale renewables which seeks to permanently decrease the use of source materials, water, and energy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://freefutures.org/free-policy-briefs/policy-briefs )〕 The model prescribes the creation of independent and financially self-sufficient non-profit entities for energy sustainability through conservation, efficiency and end-user based decentralized renewable energy all in an effort to address concerns about climate change, rising energy prices, inequity of energy availability, and a lack of community governance of energy development. The SEU model was developed by Dr. John Byrne at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware. The Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment (FREE) is responsible for dissemination and implementation of the model.〔 In the US, the SEU was first implemented by the State of Delaware,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.energizedelaware.org/Sustainable-Energy/ )〕 the District of Columbia, Sonoma County in California,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.scwa.ca.gov/scef/ )〕 the California Statewide Communities Development Authority (CSCDA) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://freefutures.org/pennsef/about )〕 The SEU’s international application is being investigated by the City of Seoul (South Korea)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.arirang.co.kr/Player/TV_Vod.asp?HL=H&code=VOD&vSeq=74718 )〕 and the City of Thane (India). The SEU is recognized by the U.S. White House and the Asian Development Bank as a viable platform to spur sustainable energy investment while driving local economic development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://freefutures.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/SEU_White-House_Press-Release.pdf )〕 ==History of the SEU== The SEU was a result of efforts by Dr. John Byrne to realise a model of energy-environment-society relations which could reflect Amory Lovins’ promise of the negawatt and the philosophical tenets of Amulya K. N. Reddy’s DEFENDUS.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.epw.in/authors/amulya-kumar-n-reddy )〕 While working as an author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr. John Byrne was influenced by the philosophical framework of the discourse on political ecology and environmental justice. He and his team worked on calculating per capita per year amount of greenhouse gas emissions which would lead the planet out of the path of a changing climate and on to a sustainable and just future. Their study concluded that a target of 3.3 tons of emissions per capita per year would be a sustainable and just emissions.In response to this finding, Dr. John Byrne’s team worked on designing an energy system model on the lines of commonwealth economy and community trusts to achieve this goal. The result was the SEU.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sustainable Energy Utility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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