News Digest Item
18 Aug 2016

“What if all German households went renewable?”

Energytransition.de

While more than 90 percent of Germans support the country’s energy transition, only 22 percent of households have switched to a provider of 100 percent green electricity despite having had the opportunity for the past 15 years, Craig Morris writes on energytransition.de. The conundrum has worsened with news that the number of households receiving 100 percent clean power declined by more than 10 percent from 2013 to 4.4 million in 2015, Morris adds. Households consume only a quarter of German electricity in total.

Read the article in English here.

Read a CLEW factsheet on opinion surveys on the energy transition.

See a CLEW factsheet on household power prices in Germany.

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