Germany's Energy Revolution Hits Potholes

Inter Press Service: When the German government decided last year to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, following the catastrophe at the Fukushima power plant in Japan, it was clear that the process would require extraordinary effort, not only in further developing alternative energy sources, especially renewables, but also in upgrading the country-wide electricity grid. Germany's nuclear power plants generated a steady 20 percent of the total electricity consumed in the country last year. But renewable energy sources...

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