Friday, 3 May 2013

Referendum initiative to remunicipalize the electricity grid

http://www.municipalservicesproject.org/blog/gaining-public-ownership-electricity-berlin  Berliner Energietisch (BE) is organizing a referendum initiative to remunicipalize the electricity grid and create a public energy utility in Berlin, Germany. BE’s slogan “ecological-social-democratic” names the three key principles behind the campaign to buy back the city’s electricity grid from the current owner, a subsidiary of Swedish corporatized public energy company Vattenfall.