Germany is in no way a role model when it comes to renewable energy.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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Germany has made great sacrifice to be a leader in renewables. An example for other nations of what can be accomplished with confident determination.
Germany is heavily relying on coal: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/coal-germany
It's also building inefficient LNG terminals for liquid gas. Far away from being a leader in renewables.
Furthermore EVs are not a solution for climate change, but rather to save the car industry, which is particularly strong in Germany.
The past conservative governments have slowed down renewables unnecessarily. But one of the biggest successes of the world destruction lobby is to make people believe the energy transition was hard. Don't focus too much on the little things. Look at the big picture: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&legendItems=01
Hard coal and lignite have a share of 35.3 percent in German power production (compared to 35.2% from renewables, 11.7% from nuclear and 12.8% from natural gas in 2018).
As of five years ago they were also heavily relying on renewables according to your source.
That economic loss isn’t affecting the people it needs to affect for there to be real change. That’s the problem.
That's still cheaper than the wealthy paying taxes.