Germany: A Clean Energy Success Story Or Cautionary Tale?

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 6 December 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Everyone agrees Germany is a renewable energy powerhouse. But not everyone agrees on how that’s benefitted the country. The web is littered with conflicting opinion pieces on the German experience – some claiming the country’s aggressive promotion of renewables is an oncoming economic disaster, and some saying those concerns are far overblown, if not totally false. So what are we to believe? In this week's show, we'll look at Germany's evolving relationship with renewables, the impact on electricity prices and the outlook for its nuclear phase-out. Then we'll travel to Japan, which is undergoing a rapid transition after a sudden phase out of nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. We'll ask if the country can make up for the nuclear gap. Finally, we'll travel to Ontario, where we'll look at the phase out of coal power and changes to the province's troubled feed-in tariff program. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of December 6th 2013, this is the Energy Senior Editor with Green Tech Media in Washington, D.C.
0:20.5	Just getting over a cold here, so forgive the raspiness and the gang is all here together this week after a week long break for the holiday
0:28.8	With me in DC as well back from a farm in Virginia, is Catherine Hamilton.
0:35.0	She's partner at 38 North Solutions, a clean energy focused public policy consulting firm.
0:40.0	Good morning, Catherine.
0:42.0	Good morning. I hope everybody enjoyed Thanksgiving. I'm a I'm vegetarian but I managed to fill up on the side dishes which in Virginia are killers.
0:51.0	Oh, there are killers everywhere, I think.
0:53.4	And in New York, back on the back after a Thanksgiving rest in Kentucky, I believe, is Jigger
0:59.6	Shaw, an energy futur, and author of the book Creating Climate Wealth.
1:03.8	Jigger, how was Kentucky?
1:05.8	It was awesome.
1:06.8	As you guys know, there's a lot of beautiful country back in the middle of the middle of the country.
1:13.0	And we're all good to go.
1:15.0	I don't have any major liquids near me.
1:18.0	Yesterday we tried to record this show and I dumped an entire thing of water on my plugs and my computer died and we lost the entire
1:28.7	show.
1:29.7	So we're going at this again.
1:30.7	Is everyone free of liquids? I am liquid free.
1:34.0	Excellent.
1:36.0	All right, so we're not going to be talking about
1:38.0	Virginia or Kentucky or New Hampshire where I was staying in Thanksgiving.
1:43.3	But we're going to try something a little different
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