News Digest Item
14 Jul 2016

“Nuclear or Coal? Neither!”

der Freitag

Thanks to renewables, we don’t need nuclear energy to protect the climate, nor coal power to enable the nuclear exit, argues Rüdiger Haude, spokesperson of a solar support association, in politics weekly der Freitag. But several reforms of the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) are meant to ensure “with brute force” that Germany will rely on coal power for a long time, and secure the survival of the traditional utilities, by putting the breaks on renewables.

Read the article in German here.

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