De Triomf van Bürgerenergie

Germany's whole power supply -- and the way it's managed -- looks very different than it did not so long ago. In contrast to the big, centralized power plants that could meet demand with roughly the same, regular supply day-in and day-out, the new German system is increasingly a dynamic, decentralized patchwork that includes more than two million small and medium-scale renewables producers -- businesses, villages and towns, co-ops, individuals, green investment funds, and farmers -- whose numbers grow by the month.

Mooi artikel in Foreign Policy over de Energiewende en hoe het centralistische denken te kijk zet. Want het model gaat voorbij energievoorziening, het zijn de contouren van een manier van samenleven. Kortom, Duitsland redt het wel tot de 22ste eeuw.