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When a group of citizens in the Black Forest decided to buy their town’s grid back after Chernobyl in order to stop purchases of nuclear power, the utility and government treated them with disrespect. But the campaigners weren’t just idealists; at crucial times, they repeatedly turned out to have someone in their ranks who knew exactly what to do. Waiting for liberalization was not an option, so they came up with a winning slogan to take back the grid.
This chapter is largely based on personal talks and Janzing, Bernward, and Dieter Seifried. Störfall mit Charme: Die Schönauer Stromrebellen im Widerstand gegen die Atomkraft; wie eine Elterninitiative, die sich nach Tschernobyl gründet, zu einem bundesweiten Stromversorger wird. Vöhrenbach: Dold, 2008.
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Morris, C., Jungjohann, A. (2016). The Power Rebels of Schönau. In: Energy Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31891-2_5
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