The switch to renewable energy could require more financial sacrifices than previously thought. According to a new study, the green energy transition could cost German consumers up to 60 percent more by 2020 compared to 2011. Overall, the renewables costs _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/175-billion-bombshell-germanys-green-energy-policy-to-hit-households-hard/

Fritz Vahrenholt, head of the renewable energy arm of RWE and a former hero of the German environmental movement, has been derided in Germany as a lobbyist for the fossil fuel sector after he published a book highly critical of _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/fritz-vahrenholt-qthe-sun-is-giving-us-time-to-come-up-with-smarter-policies/

The current funding of Germany’s green energy transition is anti-social, according to a new report by the Institute of the German Economy. The economic burden due to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) is up to 10 times higher for _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/new-report-green-energy-transition-is-anti-social/

It’s a real paradox: As a result of Germany’s green energy transition, nuclear power is on its way out, but coal, Germany’s dirtiest resource, has become the most important energy source again. For Germany’s climate budget, this trend is devastating. _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/back-to-black-dirty-coal-celebrates-comeback-in-germany/

The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) issued a press release on a 28-page report that German energy expert Dr. Guenter Keil wrote concerning Germany’s transition to renewable energy, and away from nuclear and fossil fuel energy. DR. KEIL’S FULL 28-PAGE _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/energy-expert-germanys-renewable-energy-transition-will-fail-spectacularly-heavily-damaging-the-economy/

Every job in Germany in the solar sector costs 250,000 euros to electricity consumers, meaning they are doomed. Optimistic predictions that Germany’s decision to turn its back on nuclear energy will lead to the creation of hundreds of thousands of _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/doomed-every-solar-job-in-germany-costs-250000/

Germany has put the shutdown of all its nuclear reactors on the fast track since the Fukushima accident. Finally, Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution to rescue the planet from nuclear power and climate-killing CO2 emissions appears set begin in earnest, at least _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/germanys-energy-revolution-the-new-age-of-coal/