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Various of wind turbines around Feldheim2. Tilt up from Japanese delegation to rotor of wind turbine3. Close of wind turbine4. Tilt up from pond to wind turbine5. Wide of factories and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFeldheim, Germany - December 2, 2011\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of wind turbines around Feldheim\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tilt up from Japanese delegation to rotor of wind turbine\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of wind turbine\u003cbr/\u003e4. Tilt up from pond to wind turbine\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of factories and wind turbines\u003cbr/\u003e6. Mid of Japanese delegation\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of Japanese children with camera\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Kanako Nishikatta:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here I can see how the future of Japan could look. This village is very advanced in supplying the village with its own energy. I hope that one day we will have villages like Feldheim in Japan as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of wind turbines\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Japanese delegation walking towards biofuel plant\u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan from worker opening cover to storage of biofuel\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of actor Taro Yamamoto sniffing corn\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid of Werner Schlunke explaining bio fuel plant to Japanese delegation\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of sign on pipe reading (German) \"Bio fuel regulator\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of Taro Yamamoto with Japanese activists\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Taro Yamamoto, actor and activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is important for me and the people in Japan to know that energy independent villages exist and that they not only produce their own energy but also sell it to other households. And the good thing is that there is no great danger if there would be an explosion of a machine. No danger\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid of delegation walking through biofuel plant\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid of roof of biofuel plant\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE (German), Werner Schlunke, farmer from Feldheim:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our project here is a long term project. We all know that energy prices will increase within the next years. With our project we want to keep our prices stable. This is our goal, to keep our energy prices stable.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of solar panels with wind turbine in background\u003cbr/\u003e21. Close of solar panels with wind turbine in background\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of solar panels\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of solar panels and wind turbine\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE(German) Werner Frohwitter, spokesman of Feldheim energy project:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The energy revolution is taking place in the countryside. That means that you will find renewable energy plants in the countryside. It also means that you not only have to built these plants in the countryside you also have to involve the people in the production process.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid of chickens\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide of Feldheim pond with wind turbines in background\u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (German) Henning Heidemanns, Brandenburg state official:\u003cbr/\u003e\"If we create a lot of Feldheim's in Germany and Japan then we start to make the way free for a decentralised energy supply in Germany and worldwide.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Wide of picnic area at Feldheim\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of weather vane\u003cbr/\u003eJapanese confidence in nuclear power was shattered by the destruction of the Fukushima nuclear plant in the earthquake and tsunami last March.\u003cbr/\u003eThe fallout has prompted residents from the radiation-stricken area around the reactors to visit Germany to learn how renewable energy could work back home.\u003cbr/\u003eThe German village of Feldheim is a model of renewable energy.\u003cbr/\u003eFrom every vantage point giant wind turbines rise above the village and surrounding farmland.\u003cbr/\u003eFeldheim's total commitment to renewable energy makes it a model for other communities and the target destination for a Japanese delegation.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that caused massive radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear facility, Kanako Nishikatta decided to devote herself to sparking an energy revolution in her own nation, such as that which is taking place in Germany.\u003cbr/\u003eShe is a single mother who lives with her two children 100 kilometres (60 miles) away from the disabled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Here I can see how the future of Japan could look. This village is very advanced in supplying the village with its own energy. I hope that one day we will have villages like Feldheim in Japan as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe group, organised by representatives of Greenpeace Japan, arrived last week in Feldheim, in northeastern Germany, to see for themselves.\u003cbr/\u003eThey want to learn how its 145 residents have taken advantage of the energy generated by a nearby wind farm and a biofuel plant that burns the waste from a local pig farm to become an entirely self-sustaining, energy-positive village.\u003cbr/\u003eThe project has its roots in the 1990s, when farmers in the area agreed to rent some of their land to a young researcher wanting to install a wind turbine. In the following years, 43 turbines sprouted out of the once fallow field but Feldheim's 145 residents didn't benefit from any of the energy produced in their own backyard.\u003cbr/\u003eThey made an agreement to get power from the wind farm in partial return for the use of the land.\u003cbr/\u003eThen they added solar panels and a plant to burn the biofuels they were already producing, drawing on the natural resources at hand.\u003cbr/\u003eBuilding their own power network resulted in a 25 to 30 percent cut in their electricity bills and annual savings of Euros 100,000 (USD 134,180) in energy costs for the farmer's co-op in the village.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government voted in June to shutter its network of 17 nuclear reactors by 2020 and instead make the expansion of renewable sources the focus of its energy policy. \u003cbr/\u003eGermany draws 23 percent of its energy from nuclear power, compared to Japan, which drew some 30 percent of its power from nuclear reactors before the accident.\u003cbr/\u003eBy comparison, renewable sources now provide Germans with 17 percent of their power, as compared with 9 percent in Japan.\u003cbr/\u003eActor Taro Yamamoto, a resident of Tokyo who has also devoted himself to the fight against nuclear power since the accident, says the first step to bringing about change is for Japan to start educating the people about energy.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is important for me and the people in Japan to know that energy independent villages exist and that they not only produce their own energy but also sell it to other households. And the good thing is that there is no great danger if there would be an explosion of a machine. No danger\"\u003cbr/\u003eIt took about 10 years for residents in the area to come around to the idea of investing in renewable energy. \u003cbr/\u003eNow the village is looking to the future, says farmer Werner Schlunke:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our project here is a long term project. We all know that energy prices will increase within the next years. With our project we want to keep our prices stable. This is our goal, to keep our energy prices stable.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe 30 local jobs created through the wind turbines and the biogas plant provided further proof for Feldheim residents that their decision to rely on renewables, and themselves, was the right one.\u003cbr/\u003ePeople need to get involved in the energy revolution says Werner Frohwitter, spokesman for Feldheim's energy project:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The energy revolution is taking place in the countryside. 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