Energy Democracy: Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann

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 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.

615 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 9, 2016

Reviews

[Jan Jaap]

This book stood on display in the local public library when I took it (2022 1028 fr 21). Surprisingly informative (but no mention of Casimir effect and zero point energy in index).

Special recognition for Paul Gipe on page xii and xiii.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.100... publisher bookpage

http://energiewendebook.de/de/ bookpage mentioned on page xii (is no longer in use)
even on archive..org [see
https://web.archive.org/web/202200000...
https://web.archive.org/web/202012170... still not in use ]

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf... preview i-xxiii toc
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf... preview 421-437 index

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