Tracing Germany's Energiewende Back to the US


Chancellor Merkel's government has occupied the term Energiewende (clean energy transition) and made it its own, as if it had coined the moniker in the first place. In fact, its origins go back deep into West Germany's mass movements and ultimately have their source in the United States, during the short-lived alternative energy boom of the 1970s.

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