Germany鈥檚 largest green power provider Lichtblick could soon belong to Shell
Tageszeitung
The Dutch oil company Shell and pension fund PGGM have expressed interest in buying聽, owner of聽 Germany鈥檚 largest green power provider Lichtblick, .
The 53 municipalities that own Eneco, which is heavily invested in sustainable energy projects, said in December they will sell it via an auction later this year, . Since December 2018, Eneco has owned all of Lichtblick, which has more than 600,000 customers in Germany.
, Janzing writes that a deal 鈥渨ould reveal more clearly than ever that the energy transition has shrivelled into a technical transformation [鈥 This leaves a bitter aftertaste, because originally the Energiewende was also meant to become a project of decentralised ownership structures 鈥� a citizens鈥� project.鈥� Janzing says many Lichtblick customers will be highly critical of a Shell ownership. Several readers of the left-wing tageszeitung said in the article鈥檚聽they would cancel their Lichtblick contracts if Shell bought the company.
