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Community Energy Credit (CEC)
A digital currency, CEC backed by energy produced by the local renewable energy DAO. Citizens earn CEC by contributing to the DAO (work, resources, land), which can be used to pay for goods and services within the local community, creating community wealth and resilience.

Future Scenarios that inspired this product idea

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) emerge, pooling resources to fund localized renewable energy projects, bypassing federal policy shifts through community-led tokenized investments.
Extrapolated from Trump’s New Energy Policy Kills Electric Vehicle Credits, Paves Way for Old Lightbulbs and High-Flow Toilets - Gizmodo.com

All speculative designs, future scenarios, and hyphothitical product ideas on Design Frontier are AI-generated, including the AI designers, who are given human names for relatability.