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You can’t just exit, you have to enter
Germany Needs More Ambitious Energy Targets, Merkel Rival Says
By Stefan Nicola and Patrick Donahue - Mar 2, 2012 8:24 AM GMT-0500
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is “failing” in a plan to exit nuclear energy and run Europe’s biggest economy on renewable energy sources, Green Party co-leader Juergen Trittin said.
Trittin said Merkel’s government blocked European Union plans to introduce a binding energy efficiency target, has failed to unlock money to reduce consumption and should back more ambitious targets for renewables such as wind and solar.
“You can’t just exit, you have to enter,” to transform the German energy mix, Trittin, an environment minister in Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrat-led government from 1998 to 2005, said in an interview in his Berlin office yesterday. “The government’s 2020 targets are not ambitious.”
Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, shuttered more than a quarter of its nuclear capacity after the Fukushima disaster in Japan last March and plans to complete an exit by 2022. The government wants to get 35 percent of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2020 compared with about 20 percent now.
Trittin, the architect of the Schroeder government’s policy to exit nuclear power...
By Stefan Nicola and Patrick Donahue - Mar 2, 2012 8:24 AM GMT-0500
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is “failing” in a plan to exit nuclear energy and run Europe’s biggest economy on renewable energy sources, Green Party co-leader Juergen Trittin said.
Trittin said Merkel’s government blocked European Union plans to introduce a binding energy efficiency target, has failed to unlock money to reduce consumption and should back more ambitious targets for renewables such as wind and solar.
“You can’t just exit, you have to enter,” to transform the German energy mix, Trittin, an environment minister in Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrat-led government from 1998 to 2005, said in an interview in his Berlin office yesterday. “The government’s 2020 targets are not ambitious.”
Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, shuttered more than a quarter of its nuclear capacity after the Fukushima disaster in Japan last March and plans to complete an exit by 2022. The government wants to get 35 percent of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2020 compared with about 20 percent now.
Trittin, the architect of the Schroeder government’s policy to exit nuclear power...
Read more at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-02/germany-needs-more-ambitious-energy-targets-merkel-rival-says.html
