Comments on: Who’s Really Paying for Energiewende (and Increasing Natural Gas & Coal Prices)?

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:46:00 +0000

Good to hear. And I hope they do pay attention and turn the political system around.

In the US, i know the HUGE majority support solar (~90%), but they don’t pay enough attention to politics to even realize that one party is essentially robbing them any way they can to give more money to the rich, so getting them to pay any attention to energy matters is a pipe dream.

By: ThomasGerke

ThomasGerke — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:01:00 +0000

Yeah. Nasty and so orchestrated.

It seems it doesn’t work though. According to a recent public opinion poll 90% of the population still think the “Energiewende” is important or very important. An increasing number of people worry that it’s not moving ahead fast enough though.
Considering older polls I would hope that they blame the current government & the conventional power industry (big four) for this.
It has truly become a struggle between decentralized renewables with a broad ownership structure or centralization of renewables with a huge marketshare for the big energy corporations.
As a stark supporter of path number one, I hate to see this conflict making things less efficent and more expensive.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:22:00 +0000

dirty shite, eh?

By: ThomasGerke

ThomasGerke — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Germany is currently under siege by a massive denounciation campaign aimed at damageing/destroying the broad popular support for a rapid transition to renewables. One part of this campaign is political action that drives up costs without net-benefits/reason for the majority of the population/economy. The other part is a massive media campaign that blames renewables in general and PV in particular as being the sole reason for price hikes. Behind the curtains politicans closly linked to big industry & the conventional energy sector work hard to change the successful laws & regulations in favour of big investors. A move that is designed to protect the marketshare of outdated centralized energy corporations. It’s basicly dirty politics against clean energy.A massive battle over the future of the german energy transition. Will it be slowed down by putting big conventional energy corporations in chage of it OR will the speed increase by leaving individual investors in chage of the transition by giving them the security to put their savings into doing the right thing.Fortunatly the most vicious anti-renewable policy changes are’t easily pushed into legislation by the hardliners… the renewable stakeholders have grown to powerful by now.