Vattenfall and BASF have been getting a lot of coverage for the first power generated at the HKZ offshore wind farm, with headlines like: Subsidy-Free Offshore Wind Power Starts Flowing into Dutch Grid. This is doubly annoying, as HKZ is actually not subsidy-free, and what it is “free” of is not a subsidy.
Is one of the most powerful books on the renewable energy revolution in decades. It’s a chronicle of the remarkable transformation underway in the world’s fourth-largest industrial economy.
The author traces the evolution of feed-in tariffs – the most successful and most widely used support mechanism for renewable electricity – in Germany, Spain and France. He reveals increasing cross-national policy similarities in feed-in tariff design – despite the failure of harmonizing instruments at the European level. He explains these increasing policy similarities by applying policy convergence theory. . .
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has recently published a new report: The Myth of Green Jobs – The European Experience. It claims that clean energy technologies increase energy prices and don’t lead to a net job growth in Europe. Given the German experience, Arne Jungjohann argues, AEI’s report has several flaws. . .
Analysis on the Current Debate about Costs and Benefits of Expanding the Use of Renewable Energies in Electricity Generation (Wuppertal’s English-language rebuttal to right-wing, think tank attack on German renewable energy) . . .
It was in Germany that Ed Regan realized Gainesville, Florida, was going about things all wrong. The assistant manager at Gainesville Regional Utility (GRU) was out looking for ways to boost his city’s renewable energy capacity. “Germany was a game-changer,” Regan says. Wind turbines and solar panels seemed to be everywhere. He soon learned the secret. . .
The government in Germany has changed from the coalition that created the Feed-In Tariffs to a conservative coalition that … Read more
The RWI study is therefore roughly 50 percent off the mark according to her calculation, i.e. solar is not that expensive. . .
Recent conservative studies on clean energy jobs miss the mark by Craig Morris in Grist. . .
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