2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
Author : Karoline Steinbacher
Published in: Exporting the Energiewende
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
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The Energiewende, Germany’s ongoing energy system transformation, has received attention well beyond the country’s borders, triggering reactions from enthusiastic praise to outright disbelief. It has been lauded as “a world-saving achievement” (Friedman 2015) and as a “model for how we’ll get power in the future” (Kunzig 2015), while others see in it “an expensive gamble” (Karnitschnig 2014) and even “an energy market disaster” (Clark 2014). As a farreaching transition away from nuclear and fossil fuels and toward renewable energies and efficiency, the Energiewende model stands out, especially among industrial countries (IRENA 2014, Morgan & Weischer 2013, Stigson et al. 2013).