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If Germany Can Do it … A Big ‘If”

Monday, August 27, 2012 5:51
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All eyes are on Germany these days as Greece, Spain and Italy await their fiscal fate.  

But it isn’t just the great Euro- question for which answers are sought in Germany.  For, in much the same way that La Toynbee harps continually about the Swedish model of social policy, so many a Green offers us the Teutonic approach as the paragon of energy policy.

Decisively scrapping nuclear generation; generously subsidising wind and solar power; dramatically meeting nearly half its electricity needs from solar in May of this year: Utopia-am-Rhein has already been built !  You see, they chorus, and if Germany can do it …
Not so fast, my little green chums.  Here’s your summer reading project on German energy.
Let’s leave the final word to Günther Oettinger (German!), the EC’s Energie-Kommissar (sic): 

Germany has the second highest electricity prices in Europe – mainly because of high taxes and the renewable energy levy. This can not go on, because we will overwhelm the consumer and harm the economy

Well said, that man. 

ND



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