Wind Power While the aim of this project is to understand the social economy’s role in renewable energy more generally, wind power is one of the fastest growing electricity sources in the world. [...] It is comprised of a loose, transnational network of institutions and / or structures that have, at their heart, a set of ideas rejecting the prioritization of profit as a sole economic motive and asserting the interconnectivity of the economy and society. [...] A further rationale for re-examining the role of the social rests on a normative belief in the value of participatory and democratic structures in a society. [...] Such models are re-gaining strength and are expected to contribute substantially to the further growth of wind power in many world regions, by mobilizing additional economic and social support for wind technology” A key part of the social argument rests on the claim that citizens backlash to wind developments can be overcome by giving them a stake in the project, and by educating the locals about [...] In the U. K., the ‘rush for wind’ when policy financial supports went in to place meant that actors who could move the fastest and had the best connections to research on wind sites and to policymakers secured the best sites.