“Green energy doesn’t need subsidies”

If the immediate engagement in the energy transition has subsided a bit in Germany, it is because the Energiewende has become part of daily live, not because citizens lack interest, Heiko von Tschischwitz, founder of green power supplier LichtBlick, told the Hamburger Abendblatt in an interview. Unfortunately, politicians had not understood this and were still thinking the transformation to a clean energy supply would require subsidies. Renewable energies had become so cheap that if their expansion was left to itself, the energy transition would come automatically, von Tschischwitz said.