Merkel’s Energy Issues For 2013: Not Talk About Electric Cars
Chancellor Angela Merkel set an ambitious goal in 2011: By 2020, there should be a million electric cars on Germany’s roads. With not even 4.600 of them out there now, this number seems out of grasp....
View ArticleSoaring Solar Power Giving Politicians Headaches
Despite cuts in subsidies, solar power has been soaring in Germany throughout 2012. According to the industry association BSW-Solar, the energy produced has risen by 45 percent, to 28 billions of...
View ArticleMerkel’s Energy Issues For 2013: Subsidies, Loopholes and the Fear of a Blackout
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is not about to make substantial changes to green energy subsidies – at least not until the elections in autumn 2013. Some issues, however, need to be resolved: There...
View ArticleOn Green Energy and Cheap Shirts
For the German-language Wall Street Journal Website, I wrote a half-satirical, all-serious article on my countrymen’s stance toward the historical shift to renewables going on in Germany. As citizens,...
View ArticleMerkel’s Energy Issues For 2013: Offshore Wind
Six nuclear plants in the German seas – this has been , and officially still is, the government’s offshore wind goal for 2020. While it seems foreseeable that this won’t happen, progress is being made:...
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