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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by j00 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:37AM (#30932441)
If one assumes the current trend [1] of the last 13 years, Germany should be at 84% in 2035 by simply not slowing down the transition. So honestly not overly ambitious

[1] https://energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?...

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by it_citizen on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:17AM (#30933011)
Contrary to popular belief and assumptions in many papers, adoption of a technology doesn’t follow an exponential curve but often follows an s curve and we can reasonably assume that Germany is in the spot where growth accelerates at the strongest. Massive efforts might be needed to not see the growth rate of the transition to slow down.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00863-0.epdf?shar...

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Sol- on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:50AM (#30932616)
I think the last 2-3 years it has somewhat stagnated (for example [1]), driven by conservative politicians fishing for votes with NIMBY policies (while at the same time increasing dependence on Russian imports). Hopefully the new government can pick it back up, though.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-build-no-new-of...

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by locallost on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:37PM (#30936547)
I don't know of it was NIMBYism, but a few years ago the relatively simple feed in tariff system was replaced by a kind of a bidding system designed to allow new capacity addition to the most efficient producer. But by design they tried to limit the amount of new capacity added. Honestly I don't know all the details, but it's not very far fetched that there was a fair bit of politics involved, and protection of interests of a lot of non renewable energy producers.

Some details here https://m.dw.com/en/german-cabinet-puts-brakes-on-clean-ener...

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by namibj on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:07PM (#30939454)
A big NIMBY-issue is Bavaria (and others) famously blocking addition of above-ground north/south transmission capacity, causing expensive buried cables across farmlands and forests.
Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Wohlf on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:32PM (#30936505)
Even without politics it would have slowed in the last 2 years due to shortages.
Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by chess_buster on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:39AM (#30932485)
The target as mentioned in the article is 100%, which the FDP (libertarians) want to water down to 80%.

Given your projection, I don't wonder why

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by allendoerfer on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:08AM (#30932880)
The FDP is not libertarian by any measure. Much like the CDU they claim the social market economy of Germany as one of their achievements, which would be called outright socialist in some American circles. From an American perspective they can be compared with the Democrats in the US. Of course the whole political spectrum of America is further right than that of Germany.
Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by bally0241 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @11:08AM (#30932888)
I would hardly call the FDP libertarian.
Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by chess_buster on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:09PM (#30936913)
So neither liberals nor libertarian. What are they then?
Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by imtringued on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:24AM (#30942364)
Conservatives for the rich with a modicum of backbone to appeal to people who wouldn't vote for corruption scandal parties like CDU but Christian Linder seems to be losing his backbone as well.