Legal Shake-Up Threatens Germany’s Energy ‘Revolution’

In Germany, people’s power has wrought a revolution. All over the country, citizens have formed co-operatives to build wind [...]

German Consul General Boasts of His Nation’s Renewable Energy Policy

The Germans call their nation’s energy policy Energiewende. But the literal translation of the word — energy transition — belies the [...]

American and German Approaches to Energy-Climate Policy

Germany’s energy transition, or Energiewende, offers lessons for the United States, just not the ones typically cited on this [...]

Germany Clears Changes to Green Energy Law

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed yesterday to revamp Germany’s green energy laws to curb the high cost of power [...]

Fracking Is Not a Good Alternative to Germany’s Renewable Energy Policy

Over the past few months, oil and gas expert Daniel Yergin has become a critic of the Energiewende, Germany’s [...]