Energy Democracy: Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

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Springer, 09.09.2016 - 437 Seiten
This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore how, by taking ownership of energy efficiency at a local level, community groups are key actors in the bottom-up fight against climate change. Individually, citizens might install solar panels on their roofs, but citizen groups can do much more: community wind farms, local heat supply, walkable cities and more. This book offers evidence that the transition to renewables is a one-time opportunity to strengthen communities and democratize the energy sector – in Germany and around the world.
 

Inhalt

Energiewende The Solution to More Problems Than Climate Change
1
The Birth of a Movement 1970s Protests for Democracy in Wyhl
15
Fledgling Wind Power The Folly of Innovation Without Deployment
37
German Wind Pioneers Fighting Power Monopolies in the 1980s
53
The Power Rebels of Schönau
73
Renewable Energy in Conservative Communities
94
The 1990s Laying the Foundations for the Energiewende
123
Green Capitalism Made in Germany
161
Healthy Democracy Key to the Energiewendes Success
227
Utilities Bet on Gas and Coal and Renewables Boom 20052011
251
From Meitner to Merkel A History of German Nuclear Power
299
Merkel Takes Ownership of the Energiewende 2011Today
340
Will the Energiewende Succeed?
379
Act Now or Be Left Out
413
Index
420
Urheberrecht

The RedGreen Revolution 19982005
197

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Craig Morris is Contributing Editor of Renewables International and lead author at EnergyTransition.de. He has served as editor of IRENA’s REmap report and Greenpeace’s Energy (R)evolution in addition to translating several major German books on renewables into English. In 2014, he won the IAEE prize for journalism in energy economics.
Arne Jungjohann is an author, consultant and political scientist. He served as a strategic advisor for the Minister President of Baden-Württemberg and in the Deutscher Bundestag. Based in Washington DC for several years, he fostered transatlantic dialogue on climate and energy matters. He lives with his family in Stuttgart.

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