Buerger Energie Berlin (Berlin Energy Co-op)

[link above in German]

Buerger Energie Berlin is a citizen run cooperative project to take the operation of the Berlin electricity grid under citizen control.

The Guardian, Suzanne Goldberg writes:

“Arwen Colell was cycling down a Berlin street one afternoon when a friend from her choir group called her and said: “We should buy the electrical grid.” The idea was not out of the blue. Germany‘s energytransition, from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewables, has lined rooftops with solar panels. But it was another ambition to run Berlin’s distribution network.

Colell did not hesitate. “We should definitely do it,” she said. “Good idea.” ”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/berliners-co-op-aims-run-electricity