News Digest Item
12 Jul 2018

Federal government invested more than 1 billion euros in R&D in energy technologies in 2017

Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Investments in the research and development of modern technologies are key to successfully achieving Germany’s transition to a low-carbon energy supply, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy says in a press release. For that reason, the federal government invested more than 1 billion euros in these areas last year, according to a report accompanying the press release. Roughly 80 percent was invested in the domains of renewable energies and energy efficiency.

Read the press release in German here and the report in German here.

For background, read the dossier New technologies for the Energiewende and the factsheet Technologies of Energiewende.

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