We the Power: the Future of Energy is Community-Owned

A film about the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe and the visionaries lighting the way from Patagonia Films.

Imagine upending the traditional energy system and giving the power of clean electricity production back to your neighbours. We the Power follows friends, families and visionaries as they break down legislative barriers and take power back from big energy companies to put it in the hands of locals and strengthen their towns. The film chronicles local cooperatives from deep in Germany’s Black Forest to the streets of ancient Girona in Spain and the urban rooftops of London, England, as they pave the way for a renewable energy revolution and build healthier, financially stable communities. Join an energy community. Invest in one. Or build your own.

Directed by David Garrett Byars
Produced by Carlos Carneiro, Roos van de Weerd, Nicholas Weissman & Bas Zwartepoorte
Executive Producers Alex Weller, Alex Lowther & Monika McClure
Edited by Lyman Smith

In collaboration with Vacationland and Bureau Voorlichting

Special thanks to:
www.energygarden.org.uk
www.ews-schoenau.de
www.somenergia.coop