For Germany, the fact that the renewable energy industry, particularly wind, is not performing as expected is worrisome news. Germany has long been the powerhouse of Europe’s economy, yet growth in the country has slowed significantly this year. Exports account _…

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Germany will not meet its carbon emissions targets in 2020 despite spending billions of euros Germany was once heralded as an example of how ingenuity and sheer willpower could force an energy market to reform in the face of climate _…

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In Bavaria, two gas-fired power plants of the latest generation stand around as investment ruins. Nevertheless, one of the operators wants to build a third one at the same location. This can only be understood against the background of the _…

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Electricity system management costs in Germany are spiralling, in large part due to the sharply increasing costs of compensating renewable generators when their output is curtailed in order to preserve system stability. This, and other prominently criticized failures of the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/has-the-cost-of-germanys-energiewende-entered-a-critical-phase/

Germany’s Federal Audit Office has accused the government of a catastrophic mis-management of the green energy transition (Energiewende). The wastage of resources is “unprecedented”. Germany’s Federal Audit Office has accused the federal government of having largely failed to manage the _…

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Germany’s Energiewende – where we really stand In March 2017, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy published a brochure announcing that the Energiewende, its renewable energy revolution, was ‘a success story’. Nothing could be further from the truth. _…

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Germany’s new coalition deal was a “bitter disappointment” for those looking for a modern climate and energy policy, said outgoing energy secretary Rainer Baake Germany’s energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of the country’s flagship _…

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Energy state secretary quits, criticising new government’s energy and climate plans Energy state secretary Rainer Baake has quit after four years in charge of Germany’s flagship Energiewende policy at the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). Baake, a Green Party politician _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/green-no-more-germanys-mr-energiewende-resigns-criticises-new-coalition/

Irregular and unpredictable wind and solar power is increasingly becoming a problem for Germany’s power grid. Utility company Tennet TSO spent almost a billion euros last year on emergency interventions to stabilize the national grid. That’s what the company announced earlier _…

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Germany has to send electricity to neighbouring countries – and has to pay for it Germany is giving away electricity to its neighbors electricity.  According to a report by “Handelsblatt” several thousand megawatt hours flowed over the borders on New Year’s _…

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Germany’s once highly promoted “Energiewende” (transition to green energies) and the country’s feed-in act have been given a grade of “F” by one of the country’s top economists, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Werner Sinn. Just days ago the renowned economics professor _…

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An interview with Michael Miersch from the German Wildlife Foundation  

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