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Merkel Takes Ownership of the Energiewende (2011–Today)

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Merkel’s Blitzwende after Fukushima caused a lot of concern. Lots of predictions have already turned out to be false, sometimes comically so, like the fear of power shortages when Germany actually has become Europe’s biggest electricity exporter. And the flip side of utilities finally taking renewables seriously turns out, unsurprisingly, to be real pushback. Is the grassroots movement that powered the Energiewende over at the very moment it becomes uncontested governmental policy?

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Morris, C., Jungjohann, A. (2016). Merkel Takes Ownership of the Energiewende (2011–Today). In: Energy Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31891-2_13

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