Germany's Energy Transition A Comparative Perspective
This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy tr
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Energy Transition A Comparative Perspective
CAROL HAGER and CHRISTOPH H. STEFES
Germany’s Energy Transition
Carol Hager • Christoph H. Stefes Editors
Germany’s Energy Transition A Comparative Perspective
Editors Carol Hager Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, USA
Christoph H. Stefes University of Colorado Denver Denver, Colorado, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-44287-1 ISBN 978-1-137-44288-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-44288-8
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FOREWORD
Energiewende: Germany has coined a new word that the world is adopting into many languages. This book explains the origins of a fascinating idea and how it came to fruition: a developed country, known for incremental and not radical or disruptive innovation, commits to transform its energy infrastructure. To that end, it realigns its resources to research, develop, deploy, and commercialize clean energy technologies and thus changes the way it powers its homes, businesses, and automobiles. If Germany succeeds, and all the indications so far point to likely success, no one can deny anymore that the world is in the Age of Energy Transformation, a term in the agreed language of the US–EU Summit held in April 2007. The original word, Energiewende, was made popular as the book title for a blueprint, published in 1980, on how to move beyond oil and uranium. Experts working with the Öko-Institut, the Institute for Applied Ecology, building on ideas first spelled out by Amory Lovins, defined a policy path for the country, first for West Germany, and later for the larger unified Germany, on which large majorities have a
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