Germany’s Renewable Energy Shift
Addressing Climate Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7271453 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christina Gerhardt (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-119 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2016.1229803 |
| OpenAlex | W2518784985 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay considers how the state can be used successfully to initiate and support an energy shift from nuclear energy to renewable energy, as demonstrated by Germany's Renewable Energy Act from 2000 and its previous Electricity Feed-in-Law (1991). As a result of these nationwide policies, Germany has reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions, has a higher level of both energy security and employment in the renewable energy industry than the US. Germany is a global leader in this industry and provides a model for other nations in this regard
Business · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Economics · Electricity · Energy (signal processing · Energy development · Energy policy · Energy security · Environmental impact of the energy industry · Feed-in tariff · Greenhouse gas · Natural resource economics · Renewable energy · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Engineering · Global Energy Security and Policy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |