Luise Neumann-Cosel

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Luise Neumann-Cosel, 2014

Luise Neumann-Cosel (* 1986 in Berlin as Luisa Katharina von Neumann-Cosel ) is a German Geoecologist , environmental activist and a founding and board member of the community energy cooperative BürgerEnergie Berlin (BEB).

Life

Neumann-Cosel drove to the Castor protests in Gorleben for the first time when he was 16 . Based on this experience, she studied geoecology in Potsdam and Panama and familiarized herself with the basics of environmental and climate protection . She was funded by the Studienwerk of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and was a research assistant in the field of energy policy for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the Berlin House of Representatives .

In 2009 she became the press spokesperson for the anti-nuclear alliance “ Broadcast ” and the anti-Castor campaign “ X-thousand times across ”. She spoke in front of more than 100,000 people at the large-scale demonstration against the reactor lifetime extension in 2010 . In 2011 and 2013 she was invited to the Maybrit Illner talk show on nuclear energy.

Neumann-Cosel had the idea that the Berlin citizens as shareholders of a power grid - Cooperative will buy their network and thus a part of the public interest take over themselves. Together with political scientist Arwen Colell, she founded BürgerEnergie Berlin eG (BEB), was first on the board and is now on the supervisory board of the cooperative. Since the late 1980s, the Berlin power grid has been used by the Swedish state company Vattenfall . Berlin's power grid is 35,000 kilometers of power lines and is responsible for supplying 3.5 million people. The concession contract with Vattenfall GmbH expired in 2014 and the state parliament has to decide who will be allowed to use the power grid in the next 20 years. In 2016, BEB made the State of Berlin an offer to jointly purchase the power grid. Luise Neumann-Cosel criticized the concession procedure, saying that it was "tailored to Vattenfall". The BEB filed a request for abuse against the Senate's proceedings with the Federal Cartel Office.

Time at Campact

She has been working for the campaign organization Campact since May 2017 . There she heads a campaign team that is supposed to support the climate movement.

For Campact she takes part in numerous events and discussions. So she experienced a confrontation with Daimler board member Britta Seeger around the IAA .

Honors

In 2013 she was named Electricity Rebel of the Year “for her contribution to the energy transition from below” by the Schönau electricity works .

Publications

Contributions

  • with Arwen Colell: Berlin: Cooperative Power and the Transformation of Citizens' Roles in Energy Decision-Making. In: A. Luque-Ayala, J. Silver (Ed.): Energy, Power and Protest on the Urban Grid. Geographies of the Electric City. Routledge, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-4724-4900-9 , pp. 135-154.
  • with Arwen Colell: Cooperatives: New voice for citizens in ownership and management of networked infrastructures. Conference paper. Royal Geographic Society , Annual International Conference, London 2015.
  • Reconstructing urban infrastructure: civil society movements are claiming the grid. Conference paper. Royal Geographic Society, Annual International Conference, London 2013
  • No energy turnaround without public participation: Points for a sustainable energy system. In: Denkwerk Demokratie (Ed.): Roadmaps 2020. Paths to more justice, sustainability and democracy. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2013, e-book, ISBN 978-3-593-39991-1 , pp. 192–198.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fiona Weber Steinhaus: Berlin power grid in citizen hands: “Megalomania? You need that too ” . In: the daily newspaper . ( taz.de [accessed on June 27, 2016]).
  2. ↑ a b Vera Gaserow: Die Stromrebellin . In: Friday . April 27, 2013, ISSN  0945-2095 ( freitag.de [accessed June 27, 2016]).
  3. ↑ The Alumni of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, pdf, p. 23
  4. ^ TV review , Frankfurter Rundschau , April 1, 2011.
  5. ↑ a b Dirk Liesemer : Energiewende from below: The Strompiratin. In: Spiegel Online . July 21, 2013, accessed June 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Luise wants to buy the power grid (interview) , Deutschlandradio Kultur , January 12, 2013.
  7. ^ Joseph Zammit-Lucia: The German couple trying to buy the Berlin electricity grid , The Guardian , February 5, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b Stromrebellin wants to buy Berlin power grid. Der Tagesspiegel , July 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ Berlin citizens offer millions for the net , klimaretter.info, March 14, 2016
  10. ↑ The procedure for grid allocation continues. Senate keeps criteria for power grid allocation a secret , Der Tagesspiegel , February 22, 2016.
  11. ↑ Campact - moves politics! Retrieved on May 12, 2020 (German).
  12. ↑ Florian Gehm: Climate debate: car lobby vs. Climate protectors - and suddenly it's the customer's fault . In: THE WORLD . September 6, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed May 12, 2020]).
  13. ^ EWS - electricity works Schönau: electricity rebel Luise Neumann-Cosel. (No longer available online.) In: www.ews-schoenau.de. Archived from the original on June 27, 2016 ; accessed on June 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ews-schoenau.de
  14. ↑ Publications Arwen Colell, Research Center for Environmental Policy at the Free University of Berlin ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Neumann-Cosel, Luise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann-Cosel, Luisa Katharina von (birth name); Neumann-Cosel, Luise von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German environmental activist and geoecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin