{"id":12416,"date":"2012-02-27T10:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12416"},"modified":"2012-02-27T10:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T15:59:27","slug":"solar-energy-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12416","title":{"rendered":"Solar Energy In Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Americans learn about the amount of money the Obama Administration is spending to subsidize solar energy, there is an interesting report posted at The Association of Mature American Citizens website<\/a><\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Germany invested\u00a0 gargantuan amounts of money in green energy, doling out more than 130 billion in\u00a0 subsidies to install solar systems and spends an additional 10 billion per year\u00a0 subsidizing existing solar installations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet after all of this capital\u00a0 expenditure, Germany has little to show in terms of reducing green house gasses\u00a0 and helping the country\u2019s power needs. Despite massive investment, solar power\u00a0 accounts for approximately three percent of Germany\u2019s total energy\u2026 when the\u00a0 sun shines!\u00a0 To add insult to injury, Germans also pay the second highest\u00a0 price for electricity in the developed world, due mainly to the fact that they\u00a0 are heavily subsidizing green energy by adding the cost to everyone\u2019s utility\u00a0 bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article explains that Germany will be phasing out subsidies for solar energy over the next five years.<\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

According to Der Spiegel, members of Chancellor Merkel\u2019s staff are\u00a0 describing the policy as a massive money pit. Philipp R\u00f6sler, Germany\u2019s minister\u00a0 of economics and technology, has called the spiraling solar subsidies a \u201cthreat\u00a0 to the economy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to learn from Germany’s experience.<\/p>\n

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As Americans learn about the amount of money the Obama Administration is spending to subsidize solar energy, there is an interesting report posted at The Association of Mature American Citizens website The article reports: Germany invested\u00a0 gargantuan amounts of money … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2270,2267,2266,2269,1092,2265,640,2268,1733],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-energy-policy","tag-angela-merkel","tag-der-spiegel","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-philipp-rosler","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-power","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}