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Energy Democracy

Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

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Gebonden, 460 blz. | Engels
Springer Verlag | 1e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9783319318905
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Hoofdrubriek : Mens en maatschappij
Juridisch : Mens en maatschappij
Jongbloed : Energierecht
Springer Verlag 1e druk, 2016 9783319318905
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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.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9783319318905
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:460
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:26-9-2016
Jongbloed:Energierecht

Inhoudsopgave

1. Energiewende – the solution to more problems than climate change
2. The birth of a movement: 1970s protests for democracy in Wyh
3. Fledgling wind power – the folly of innovation without deploymen
4. German wind pioneers fighting power monopolies in the 1980s
5. The Power Rebels of Schönau
6. Renewable energy in conservative communities
7. The 1990s: laying the foundations for the Energiewende
8. Green capitalism made in Germany
9. The Red-Green revolution (1998-2005)
10. Healthy democracy: key to the Energiewende’s success
11. Utilities bet on gas and coal and renewables boom (2005-2011)
12. From Meitner to Merkel: a history of German nuclear power
13. Merkel takes ownership of the Energiewende (2011-today)
14. Will the Energiewende succeed?
15. Act now or be left out

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