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image from: Wildpoldsried Germany « Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

This is a great story about a German village who has a diverse range of renewable energy that it sells back to the national grid for quite the yearly income.

German village generates 321 percent more renewable energy than it needs, earns millions selling it back to national power grid|Armageddon Times

Wildpoldsried generates 321 percent more renewable energy than it uses, and it now sells the excess back to the national power grid for roughly $5.7 million in additional revenue every single year.

By utilizing a unique combination of solar panels, "biogas" generators, natural wastewater treatment plants, and wind turbines, Wildpoldsried has effectively eliminated its need to be attached to a centralized power grid, and created a thriving renewable energy sector in the town that is self-sustaining and abundantly beneficial for the local economy, the environment, and the public.