Will finally turn things around.
Germany Is Reducing Its Subsidization of Renewables – Germany, with some of the highest electricity rates in the world, is reducing its subsidies on some renewable energy programs to better control costs and limit price increases.
Germany plans to scale back renewable-energy subsidies as the country overhauls its funding system, seeking to reduce energy transition costs and address growing pressure on the electricity grid.
Duh. More investment (taxpayer subsidies) will always be needed because wind and solar don’t deliver.
Why Germany keeps switching off its solar and wind farms – and three ways to stop the problem…
Europe’s solar and wind farms are actively choosing not to produce energy, as experts warn more investment is needed in storage and flexible technologies.
Good luck with that.
German start-up plans 30-megawatt AI data centre in boost to sovereign control – German start-up Polarise plans to build a new 30-megawatt artificial intelligence data centre that would double Germany’s domestically-run computing capacity as European nations push to gain more control over critical tech infrastructure.
The facility, set to come online in the Bavarian town of Amberg in mid-2027, could eventually expand to 120 MW, the company told Reuters.
Not the lame-ass technology itself.
Alright, move on, nothing to see here, disperse…
Germany’s stretch of weak wind output set to drag on into 2026 – Europe’s largest wind power producer – Germany – remains in the grips of a years-long bout of sub-par wind electricity production due to below-average wind speeds at turbine level.
Total German wind-powered electricity output fell by around 4% in 2025 from the year before, and followed a less than 1% annual expansion in 2024, despite steady annual increases to Germany’s total wind generation capacity for over a decade.
That means moving at a snail’s pace.
But at least it’s still movement. In the right direction.
Germany drops opposition to nuclear power in rapprochement with France – Paris wins approval from Berlin to remove anti-nuclear bias in EU legislation, say officials.
Germany has dropped its long-held opposition to nuclear power, in the first concrete sign of rapprochement with France by Berlin’s new government led by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Berlin has signalled to Paris it will no longer block French efforts to ensure nuclear power is treated on par with renewable energy in EU legislation, according to French and German officials.
That means fairytale forest.
You know, the German Brothers Grimm kind. The kind Germans these days level for wind parks.
Plan for windfarm in German ‘fairytale forest’ stokes green energy culture war – Far right accused of misinformation over turbines at Reinhardswald, which has left local people divided.
Deep in the woods that inspired the Brothers Grimm, past the tower from which Rapunzel threw down her hair and the castle in which Sleeping Beauty slumbered, lies a construction site that the far right has declared a crime against national soil and identity.
In this quiet corner of Germany’s “fairytale forest”, workers are clearing land and building access roads to erect 18 wind turbines.
Very, very, lean.
But at least it’s clean. Whatever that should mean.
Clean energy sources generated the smallest amount of Germany’s electricity in over a decade so far in 2025, dealing a blow to the energy transition momentum of Europe’s largest economy.
Electricity generation from clean power sources totalled just under 80 terawatt hours (TWh) during the first four months of the year, according to data from energy think tank Ember.
That clean energy volume is down 16% from the same months in 2024 and is the lowest for that period since at least 2015.
Because your wind energy blows.
When the Wind Didn’t Blow in Germany – A years-long renewables push leaves the economy hostage to the weather.
Germany has invested so many hundreds of billions of euros in its green energy transition over the years that no one can tally the precise amount. Yet the share of wind and solar power in the country’s energy mix in the first quarter of this year managed to fall—by a lot. There’s a lesson for the U.S. here.
In Green Unicornland, maybe.
But in real countries like Germany where you have to pay real subsidies you can’t afford to pay anymore, that’s where the fun must eventually stop.
Germany’s Ballooning Subsidy Costs Show Challenge of Going Green – Subsidies are draining budget as green power appeal surges Shift may set tone for others contemplating cost of transition.
Germany is buckling under the weight of ballooning renewable energy subsidies, raising questions for governments across the world about how long they can afford to prop up green investments.
The Greens happened.
Now it’s US-Amerika‘s turn (some call it The Banana Republic).
Germany went from envy of the world to the worst-performing major developed economy. What happened?
For most of this century, Germany racked up one economic success after another, dominating global markets for high-end products like luxury cars and industrial machinery, selling so much to the rest of the world that half the economy ran on exports.
Jobs were plentiful, the government’s financial coffers grew as other European countries drowned in debt, and books were written about what other countries could learn from Germany.
No longer. Now, Germany is the world’s worst-performing major developed economy, with both the International Monetary Fund and European Union expecting it to shrink this year.
Observing Hermann 