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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by pgeorgi on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:23PM (#33948240)
The clean energy revolution was promoted by the Green party in 1998-2005 (including turning off the first nuclear power plants).

It was the string of conservative governments that followed it that neglected (and, at times, actively sabotaged) the build out of renewable power sources.

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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by thomascarney on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:12AM (#33952582)
SPD (center-left leaning party) has been junior partners in every one but one of those conservative governments.

German politics are also very collaborative/compromise driven, so it's a mistake to think the outcome would have been drastically different, had we had a SPD/Green coalition rather than a CDU/SPD coalition the last 16 years.

This is especially the case, given that parts of the SPD were and continue to be on Russian payroll.

Ultimately, renewables are very challenging from a technical perspective for a densely populated country with energy intensive industries and limited offshore wind options.

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