The BBEn alliance will form a nationwide lobby group. It claims that roughly half of the green electricity produced in the country comes from citizen-owned installations, making grassroots producers one of the main pillars of Germany’s Energiewende – its turnaround from nuclear to renewable power.

Yet citizens’ energy producers, despite representing more than a million of Germany’s citizens who are pushing the Energiewende forward, have not had a unified voice to make their interest heard in Berlin, the BBEn claims.

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