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Your own personal power plant

March 10, 2015

The German government has made a pledge to phase out nuclear power in a massive undertaking.

Combined heat and power plants use heat engines to simultaneously generate electricity and warmth. A municipal housing association in Berlin has installed several units in the basements of its apartment buildings. DW takes a look at how electricity production is already shifting on a small scale through local production.

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