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Global Impacts of Germanys Renewable Energy Transformation
2014-09-18 18:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The New York Times has finally broken away from the old narrative that renewable power is simply too expensive to be really competitive, with a ground-breaking if incomplete piece on the global and spreading impacts of the German energiewende (energy transformation). The article points out that by creating a secure, ring-fenced market for renewable electricity, Germany not only built up its own manufacturing capacities to make solar and wind cheaper, but lured the Chinese into the market at such...
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