THE HISTORY OF NORDIC FOLKECENTER
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The history of Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energ is long. More than 40 years long and starts quite some years before the actual establishment in 1983.
Below, you can go on a journey back in time to when The Infinite History of Renewable Energy began.
In 1970, Preben Maegaard, founder of Nordic Folkecenter, bought a piece of land, Kammersgaardsvej 16, 7760 Hurup Thy, from a farmer. The place became a place for training and education under the name “International Craft Training Center”, similar in structure to high school. In 1973 the center became a part of the Nordenfjord World University, which consisted of a total of 20 local training centers.
As the global oil crisis in 1974 started, so did the search for alternative energy sources. And it was indeed necessary. The main impact of the crisis was on the oil prices. In 1979 the price of an oil barrel was nearly 100 USD. With an energy supply based almost 100 % on imported oil, this could be seen in the production cost of electricity across communes in Denmark.
Some people started working towards establishing nuclear power plants in Denmark, which initiated a counterpart, which rose against this form of energy. They suggested another solution: alternative energy.
Preben Maegaard was one of the danish pioneers, who started the search for alternative energy sources at that time; and what he did was transforming the training center to a center for development and implementation of renewable energy (at that time widely talked about as alternative energy). A new model of energy supply and consumption without any fossil fuels was the target goal – under the name of “renewable energy”.
Lone Dybkjær, a Danish politician and then chairman of the national committee for energy policy, presented a proposal for a folkecenter for renewable energy to the Danish Parliament in 1982. In June 1983, her proposal was adopted and secured Nordic Folkecenter a four-year grant.
The 1st of July 1983 was the first working day at Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy.
Just three years later the education program (now called the trainee program) starts, and education becomes a mainstay in Nordic Folkecenters work – and still is to this day.
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