“Greens plan ‘solar-offensive‘“
Passauer Neue Presse
The Green Party emphasises the importance of solar power in a position paper ahead of the general elections in September, reports Passauer Neue Presse. “The caps for expansion, feed-in and self-consumption have led to an 80-percent slump in annual expansion since 2012,” write the Greens according to the newspaper. It was absurd that “the very same German economy that drove this technology is now slowed down by the federal government,” says the position paper.
Read a short version of the article in German here.
For election background, read the CLEW dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.
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