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Berliners Still Fighting to Pull the Plug on Coal-Fired Utility

2013-12-13 09:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: A decision 90 years ago by the people of Sacramento, Calif. to oust a private electric company and start a government-owned utility has been the unlikely inspiration for Berliners trying to wrest control of Germany's largest grid from a coal-fired utility. While little known in America, the creation of Sacramento's Municipal Utility District was the model for a November referendum to give Berlin a municipal utility that would pump more clean energy into the grid. The 1923 vote in Sacramento helped...

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