No, I don't think you are. Unless I'm missing something, too.
Here's another curious thing: The article says
> Meanwhile, during the same 20-year period, the United States reduced the share of fossil fuels in its primary energy consumption from 85.7 percent to 80 percent, cutting almost exactly as much as Germany did.
…but looking at the graphs, they didn't actually cut anything. It's only the relative share in the States' primary energy consumption that decreased but it only did that because the total consumption increased. The absolute amount of fossil energy consumption in the US hasn't really changed since 2000.
The economic boon the German Greens sold us the Energiewende with never came to fruition. The RENIXX stock index lost most of its German companies to be largely comprised by Chinese or American ones.
Just a few once household names in German renewables that went bust in the last ten years:
- Solaworld
- Q-Cells
- Solibro
- Sovello
- Phoenix Solar
- Centrosolar
- Solarhybrid
- Solarmillennium
and of course financial scam of Prokon AG.
Also, as I understand it, Germany’s government did pay a higher upfront cost for solar panels, but in doing so, single-handedly enabled economies of scale in solar panel manufacturing that didn’t exist before, spurring the dramatic reduction in solar panel prices we’ve seen over the last decade.