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[–] 1 point 11 hours ago (2 children)

Germany is still progressing, just at a lower speed. I agree that's not good, but it is nothing compared to how Trump has prevented the building of new Wind turbines that were billion dollar projects, and had ZERO federal spending. He just does it out of spite.

I bet the German government doesn't prevent privately funded or state projects. They may not be the best on renewables, but they are not insane like the situation is in USA.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 child)

    I bet the German government doesn’t prevent privately funded or state projects.

    Jokes on you. They are planning to eliminate all feed-in compensation while also letting the grid providers (all well-connected or subsidiaries of fossil-fuel heavy power companies) freely decide if capacities of the grid are sufficient to connect renewables, but of course with zero incentive to improve capacities. So in short: nobody will lend you money for your private renewable project anymore as no matter your business plan a third party benefiting from your failure has total control over just cutting you off from the neccessary infrastructure.

    Again: works just as well. Just so much quieter that that Trump idiocy.

    They also don't need to be insane, just corrupt and bought by the fossil fuel industry. In fact the ex-CEO of the grid provider with the most impressive track record of burying needed battery storage projects in red tape for years and years, was rewarded for this with a job as Minister of Economy and Energy and is busy rewrting the laws to cement Germany's fossil fuel dependence for decades to come (for example: they changed the planning rules regarding energy security requirements with totally made-up bullshit numbers, so nothing but gas-peakers are sufficient as "storage").

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  • [–] 1 point 6 minutes ago

    They are planning to eliminate all feed-in compensation

    That can't be right???

    Strange to hear Germany doing so poorly, even under Merkel Germany was doing just fine on building renewable capacity.

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