28-02-2018 14:17 via theguardian.com

How a small town reclaimed its grid and sparked a community revolution | Aditya Chakrabortty

The latest article in our new economics series looks at what happened when a German utilities contract expired, and one man thought his neighbours could take over
• Listen to Aditya Chakrabortty talking about game-changing economic models on The Alternatives podcastMartin Rühl never imagined this fight would define the rest of his life. Not for a moment did he reckon it would become so epic in length, in scale, in consequences. He just thought his speck of a town should run its own ele
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