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Zeitung für kommunale Wirtschaft, 18 June 2015: public participation important for energy transition (Full article in German only)
Some 91 per cent of regional and local public utilities regard public participation as "important" or "very important" for the success of the energy transition. This is shown by a survey among public utilities conducted by the German Association of Local Utilities (VKU). Almost half of the companies that took part say that they have had positive experience with the involvement of citizens in infrastructure projects in the energy sector in the last ten years.