Green Activist Turned Power Lobbyist Shows Germany Energy Shift
As an environmental activist,
Johannes Kempmann fought Germany’s energy companies in a 1980s
campaign against a nuclear waste disposal facility in the town
of Gorleben.
Thirty years later, the newly elected president of the BDEW
lobby group defends the interests of more than 1,800 power and
water providers from EON SE (EOAN) and RWE AG (RWE) to municipal utilities
like the Staedtische Werke Magdeburg GmbH & Co. KG, where he’s
been technical director since 1998. His new role doesn’t
conflict with his past, said Kempmann. “It’s not necessarily a contradiction,” he said in an interview by e-mail. “I know both sides of the debate.”
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