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Observation 1 is the gird

Current restrictions are preventing successful community solar projects and local electricity production

Farell 10 
(John, an ILSR senior researcher specializing in energy policy developments that best expand the benefits of local ownership and dispersed generation of renewable energy, "Community Solar Power" http://www.ilsr.org/community-solar-power-obstacles-and-opportunities/-http://www.ilsr.org/community-solar-power-obstacles-and-opportunities/)

Existing community solar projects have met many of these goals and overcome barriers to get
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it increases both the economic returns and the constituency for distributed solar power.

Energy production is a local political issue

Gardet, 12 
(Peter, staffwriter for aol energy, "Energy: The Purple State Issue" November 26, 2012, AolEnergy online energy .aol. com/2012/11/26/energy-the-purple-state-issue/)

Even more importantly, energy – like politics – is often as much local as it is national.
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 related to the sudden arrival of large-scale industrial activity as to the science of hydraulic fracturing.

The expanding electrical grid mirrors the centralized structure of present energy provisions and subsequent social conditions

Hoffman and Pippert 5 
(Steven M. Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Angela High-Pippert, PhD, Director of Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and serves on the ACTC Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, "Community Energy: A Social Architecture for an Alternative Energy Future", Bulletin of Science Technology and Society 2005 25: 387)

The evolution of the industrialized world’s electrical system represents one of the great technological achievements
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whatever priorities are backed by the weakest constituencies" (1977, 54).

The North American energy grid is designed for institutionalized control and distribution methods that position energy security as the primary goal of development

Bennet 05 
(Jane, political science professor at John Hopkins, "The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout" founding member of ’theory and event,’  Public Culture, 2005, jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/32808/bennet_public_culture.pdf)

First, the nonhuman actant: electricity. Electricity is a stream of electrons moving
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takes a route from producer to buyer different from the intended path."24

This mode of production is corporate driven economic colonialism. The grid becomes an ever expanding entity where we’re forced to increase it’s reach to keep it pertinent. Decentralization and local ownership is necessary to question the foundations of the institutionalized control of electricity production and essential step in disrupting the industrial paradigm.

Farrell 11
(John, directs the Energy Self-Reliant States and Communities program at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, "Democratizing the Electricity System: A Vision for the 21st Century Grid", June, p. http://atcscam.homestead.com/democratizing-electricity-system.pdf-http://atcscam.homestead.com/democratizing-electricity-system.pdf )
While technology has helped change the economics of electricity production (in favor of renewables
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renewable energy create a positive feedback loop for more investment in renewable energy.

observation 2 is the space

the centralization of energy policies support an industrial narrative that requires urban space be an invisible sacrificial zone in the name of development

Anderson 09
(Kevin, PhD in Philosophy, "Marginal Nature: Urban Wastelands and the Geography of Nature")

The American narrative of the natural and the wild reads this way: that which
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from geography which incorporated this critical analysis of the social with the ecological.

this frames resources as disposable and production as a necessary means to the end of development. the narrative of urban nature polarizes the social and the environmental where there is development and there is wasteland

Anderson 09
(Kevin, PhD in Philosophy, "Marginal Nature: Urban Wastelands and the Geography of Nature")

This narrative of functional urban nature is almost exclusively focused on the scientific understanding of ecology and the need to measure and monitor the urban ecosystem in the AND
Out of these critical perspectives on functional and restoration narratives of urban nature, a new narrative emerged from geography which incorporated this critical analysis of the social with the ecological.

these locations are destroyed and stripped of value in the institutionalized knowledge production

Hedges 12
(Chris, journalist, transcript from Moyers and Company billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-capitalism’s-’sacrifice-zones’/)
There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges calls these places "sacrifice zones," and joins Bill this week on Moyers %26 Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive.¶ "These are areas that have been destroyed for quarterly profit. We’re talking about environmentally destroyed, communities destroyed, human beings destroyed, families destroyed," Hedges tells Bill.¶ "It’s the willingness on the part of people who seek personal enrichment to destroy other human beings… And because the mechanisms of governance can no longer control them, there is nothing now within the formal mechanisms of power to stop them from creating essentially a corporate oligarchic state."

The calculative nature of capitalism reduces entire populations to human recourses and negates the value of human life

Kovel 2k2 
(Kovel 02 Professor of Social Studies at Bard College ¶ Joel, The Enemy of Nature, p. 152) SM

The monster that now bestrides the world was born of the conjugation of value and
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a racist drumbeat, for global capital, the losses are regrettable necessities.

observation 3 is the people

this undermines the social location of urbanity and positions the city as inauthentic and artificial, it’s inhabitants are excluded from questions of distribution, extraction and left locationless

Padovan 03
(Dario, "Biopolitics and the Social Control of the Multitude" Democracy and Nature, November 2003 biopolitics09. files. wordpress .com/ 2009/02/padovan1.pdf)

The ’underclass’ category serves to identify those subjects who should either be in the
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intelligence’, one that can exercise power upon people, masses and crowds.

this invisibility is a biopolitical strategy that reduces urban dwellers are lifeless beings that occupy a waste space and a centralized political structure where these epistemological assumptions cannot be questioned or challenged

Padovan 03
(Dario, "Biopolitics and the Social Control of the Multitude" Democracy and Nature, November 2003 biopolitics09. files. wordpress .com/ 2009/02/padovan1.pdf)

Biopolitical strategies are closely connected to the way in which welfare social policies have been implemented since the Second World War.
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the ’others’ are the overlooked global mass of factory workers, miners and farm laborers trapped in an exclusionary politics of development without a voice or location, there is no starting point to question the centralized structure of the industrial narrative.

Szeman 05
(Imre Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition at Mc-Master University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. "Irreversibility, or, the Global Factory" ephemera 2005 pdf)

The ever-present danger of epochal analysis is that, as it runs ahead
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growth: oil, coal, natural gas, iron ore, water.

The biopolitical protection of life requires death-life can only be maintained in this apparatus by creating disposable populations that are not protected.

Murray 2008 
(Stuart, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and writing, Till death us do part: Ontology’s rhetorical and political (re)turns, paper presented at Conference on Rhetorical Theory http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/Rhet_Theory_Conf/Papers/Murray.pdf)

Foucault charts the historical shift in sovereign power that has led to the current biopolitics
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as a touchstone for social meaning, political commitment, and ethical action.

The discourse of development is violent and entrenched in the historical knowledge production of the colonial west.

Esteva (Gustavo "Development") 

Towards 1800,¶ Entwicklung¶ began to appear as a reflexive verb. Self-development became fashionable. God, then, started to disappear in the popular conception of the universe. And a few decades later, all possibilities were opened to the human subject, author of his own development, emancipated from the divine design. Development became the central category¶ of Marx’s work: revealed as a historical process that unfolds with the same necessary character of natural laws. Both the Hegelian concept of history and the Darwinist concept of evolution were interwoven in development, reinforced with the scientific aura of Marx. When the metaphor returned to the vernacular, it acquired a violent colonizing power, soon employed by the politicians. It converted history into a programme: a necessary and inevitable destiny. The industrial mode of production, which was no more than one, among many, forms of social life,¶ became the definition of the terminal stage of a unilinear way of social evolution. This stage came to be seen as the natural culmination of the¶ potentials already existing in neolithic man, as his logical evolution. Thus history was reformulated in Western terms. The metaphor of development gave global hegemony to a purely Western genealogy of history, robbing peoples of different cultures of the opportunity to define the forms of their social life. The vernacular sequence (development is¶ possible after envelopment) was inverted with the transfer. Scientific laws took the place of God in the enveloping function, defining the programme. Marx rescued a feasible initiative, based on the knowledge of those laws. Truman¶ took over this perception, but transferred the role of prime mover —the¶ primum movens¶ condition — from the communists and the proletariat to the experts and to capital (thus, ironically, following the precedents set by Lenin¶ and Stalin)

normative discourse and fails to mobilize social or political change

Flyvbjerg and Richardson 02
(Bent, Aalborg University, Department of Development and Planning, Tim , University of Sheffield, Department of Town and Regional Planning In Philip Allmendinger and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, eds., Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory. London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 44-62. flyvbjerg . plan.aau.dk/DarkSide2.pdf)

We wish to stress that the modern normative attitude - an attitude that has been
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of conflict and difference, and more compatible with the pluralisation of interests.

solar power can decentralize the grid and provide a starting point for questions of locality and social positioning

Hoffman and Pippert 5 
(Steven M. Hoffman, PhD, Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Angela High-Pippert, PhD, Director of Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas, and serves on the ACTC Women’s Studies Coordinating Committee, "Community Energy: A Social Architecture for an Alternative Energy Future", Bulletin of Science Technology and Society 2005 25: 387)

Within the last twenty years, however, technologies have emerged that present the opportunity for a distinctly new type
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 oftentimes represents more of a rhetorical appeal than a call for a substantive change in the on-operation of the grid.