SCHÖNAU CITIZENS ENERGY SOCIAL COMPANY 1986-2016 SCHÖNAU_CITIZENS_ENERGY_SOCIAL_COMPANY_160421.ppt The social enterprise EWS - Elektrizität Werke Schönau ews-schoenau.de/ Marco Morosini Summary In the small German town Schönau (Baden-Württemberg), as a reaction to the atomic disaster in Chernobyl (1986) a group of citizen lead by Michael and Ursula Sladek built over a decade a majority consensus for founding a citizens owned electricity company (EWS Elektrizitätswerke Schönau), devoted to buying the local electricity grid with the purpose of shifting the local supply to 100% renewable and sustainable electricity. The mission of this initiative is not “solving a local problem”, but rather to inspire Germany, and possibly abroad other countries, to abandon atomic power generation and to shift the production of energy services almost completely towards renewable sources and sustainable technologies. The local goal was reached in 1995 through a series of initiatives, including a contest to save electricity, a referendum, an intense sympathy-winning local and national communication campaign, a nationwide crowd-funding for buying the grid. The case illustrates the application of the principle “think globally, act locally”, as well as the comparison of different options such as e.g. renewable vs non-renewable energy sources, decentralized vs centralized power generation, small vs big companies, town owned vs citizen owned utility companies, for-profit enterprise vs social enterprise.

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tue Gutes und rede darüber

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Atomstromlos
(no atomic energy)
Klimafreundlich
(climate friendly)
Bürgereigen
(citizens‘ owned)

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5 STARS ECO-ELECTRICITY

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The Schönau inspiration...
Berlin
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Oldenburg
Titisee-Neustadt
Ile de Sein (Fr.)

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Presentation of 14. April 2016

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31. Morosini mamo@ethz.ch / Cases in Environmental Policy and Decision Making / 10.3.2016
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swG1_pk6Y94

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLNFxyT1H8I

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100-gute-gruende.de/

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think globally
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act locally

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succeed globally

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