![]() ![]() In response, politicians sometimes order “electrical lines be buried underground but that is many times more expensive and takes years longer.”Īs a result, the deployment of renewables and related transmission lines is slowing rapidly. ![]() “There is hardly a wind energy project that is not fought.” ![]() “The politicians fear citizen resistance” Der Spiegel reports. Over the past five years alone, the Energiewende has cost Germany €32 billion ($36 billion) annually, and opposition to renewables is growing in the German countryside. “The Energiewende - the biggest political project since reunification - threatens to fail,” write Der Spiegel’s Frank Dohmen, Alexander Jung, Stefan Schultz, Gerald Traufetter in their a 5,700-word investigative story. The magazine’s cover shows broken wind turbines and incomplete electrical transmission towers against a dark silhouette of Berlin. Now comes a major article in the country’s largest newsweekly magazine, Der Spiegel, titled, “A Botched Job in Germany” (" Murks in Germany"). Its emissions have flat-lined since 2009. But Germany didn’t just fall short of its climate targets. ![]()
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