text: WHAT SAY YOU, RESIDENTS OF OAHU? ARE THERE AT LEAST 2,000 OF US--OUT OF NEARLY ONE MILLION NOW--WHO ARE INTERESTED IN FOLLOWING THE "BERLIN 2K"?
  
  "Over 2000 Berlin residents bid to buy and run the city’s grid: A Berlin cooperative, BürgerEnergie Berlin, is gathering funds and building a model of democratic decision making with the ultimate aim of buying and running the city’s electricity grid. At the moment, the city’s energy grid is run by a subsidiary of the Swedish state owned corporation Vattenfall, whose contract with the Berlin municipality ended in 2014. 
  
  This is an interim measure while the next contract is negotiated. BürgerEnergie is one of three applicants bidding to purchase and operate the grid, who are all being evaluated by the Berlin Parliament to determine which is the best option — the date of this decision is not yet known.--con't below.  
  
  https://medium.com/signals-of-change/over-2000-berlin-residents-bid-to-buy-and-run-the-citys-grid-b2bff98871b3