Comments on: EU Commission Recommends German Energy Shift http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/23/eu-commission-recommends-german-energy-shift/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 18:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/23/eu-commission-recommends-german-energy-shift/#comment-183139 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 20:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56726#comment-183139 Readers should note that the German EU Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger, is a right-wing CDU politician just as hostile to renewables as the FDP. The Commission´s paper was a transparent intervention in the German election in favour of the FDP. It failed and Oettinger will now shut up.

The claim that the costs of the Energiewende aren´t under control is laughably wrong, as anyone who has looked at a chart of the trend in PV installation costs in Germany knows very well.

]]> By: Matt http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/23/eu-commission-recommends-german-energy-shift/#comment-183057 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:10:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56726#comment-183057 Interesting that they didn’t recommend that Germany cut the break it has be giving to big and increasing any corporation on their electric bill. Or the issue that wholesale prices for electric has dropped while retail has not.

]]> By: Ivor O'Connor http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/23/eu-commission-recommends-german-energy-shift/#comment-183052 Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=56726#comment-183052 Seems like political posturing. Without knowing the political landscape it is hard to tell what is really going on.

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