Berliners await landmark decision on sale of city's power grid
Residents and activists in Berlin want to add to the growing number of cooperatives investing and running power generation in Germany.
“Why don’t we just buy the entire Berlin power grid?” asked Luise Neumann-Cosell, a resident of the city and a staunch advocate of renewable energy. She is organising to join forces with other Germans and win back control of Berlin’s power distribution network from energy giant Vattenfall. The grid would then be run as a long-term concession by the group she is a member of, Bürger Energie Berlin eG…
