30 May 2012

Energy Struggles for Energy Democracy?

The new issue of the Magazine LuXemburg 1/2012 has been published. We document here the article by Tadzio Müller.

"Germany’s Energiewende, its comparatively rapid and multi-scalar move towards a more renewable energy system, is the subject of much international scrutiny and discussion. Within Germany, it has become clear that there are two paths that can be taken in this expansion of renewable energies: one that leads to large-scale installations (Desertec, off-shore windparks) under the continued control of the big energy companies; one that leads to an increasingly decentralised, increasingly democratic and socially responsive energy sector.

In this paper, I try to analyse the contribution that social struggles ‘from below’ can make in this process, to what extent they can coalesce into a broader struggle for ‘energy democracy’." (Tadzio Müller)

>> Article in English in "papers and thesis papers" of the seminar on socio-ecological Transformation

>> Article in German pdf

>> Magazine LuXemburg 2012/01