WORK: Elektrizitätswerke Schönau Vertriebs GmbH

 

SHORT DESCRIPTION:

The EWS arose from the Anti-Nuclear-Power-Movement. After the catastrophe of Chernobyl in the small Black Forest town of Schönau a citizens’ initiative formed, which formulated as a long-run aim a nuclear-free future and tried to sensitise people to the wasting of energy by organizing “Energy saving contests”. But because of the obstructions by the local electricity supplier and his miserable payment for regenerative generated electrical power (sun-, wind-, waterpower) the activists draw up the plan to take over the electric distribution network of Schönau. Through their 10 years longing fight against the propaganda machinery of monopolist, against attempts of intimidation, narrow-mindedness and disinterest and occasionally also against politics, the initiative became a symbol of the Anti- Nuclear-Power-Movement all over Germany. After winning two referenda in Schönau the EWS at last took over electricity supply in 1997. Two years later the company started the sale of “Schönauer Rebellenstrom” (rebel electricity) throughout Germany – non-nuclear, non-oil and non-coal produced, without any financial interweavement with monopolists, the owners of nuclear power plants or their subsidiary companies. Since these days more than 75`000 people have recognized the signs of the times and became supporters of the Energy Turnaround – and every day there are some more…

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Website: ews-schoenau.de