Wednesday, July 24, 2019

German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE

German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future - SPIEGEL ONLINE
See the source image"In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the country was turning away from nuclear energy in favor of a renewable future.
Since then, however, progress has been limited.
Berlin has wasted billions of euros and resistance is mounting.
...Germany's Federal Court of Auditors is even more forthright about the failures.
The shift to renewables, the federal auditors say, has cost at least 160 billion euros in the last five years.
Meanwhile, the expenditures "are in extreme disproportion to the results," 
Federal Court of Auditors President Kay Scheller said last fall, although his assessment went largely unheard in the political arena. Scheller is even concerned that voters could soon lose all faith in the government because of this massive failure..."
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