John Farrell, Senior Researcher in Energy Policy Developments, Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ISLR)

John Farrell is an Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ISLR) senior researcher specializing in energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy. He has written extensively on the economies of scale of renewable energy, the benefits of decentralized energy generation, and the policies and rules that support locally owned and distributed generation of renewable energy.

His research includes Energy Self-Reliant States, detailing the state-by-state potential for renewable energy, and Feed-in Tariffs in America: Driving the Economy with Renewable Energy Policy that Works. All his work is freely available at www.newrules.org.

John Farrell can also be found authoring the decentralized web resource energyselfreliantstates.org, on Twitter @johnffarrell, or at jfarrell [AT] ilsr.org.