A group of 2,600 people living in Faldsboldsrad’s town in southern Bavaria, playing a role cautiously in a bold experiment in a renewable energy generator in Germany, it is called “Energiewende” and it means “a shift in power.” The shift is an absent from nuclear power and fossil fuels and it is considered one of the complicated initiatives undertaken by the government two decades ago.
In the town of Faldsboldsrad, dozens of homes and public buildings are equipped with solar cells that are high-tech. Also on the hills there are wind turbines financed by the local population, and many of the farm buildings are build next to it a biogas plants.
This produces equipment and other similar projects, equivalent to about 500 percent of the requirements in the town of Faldsboldsrad comes from energy. Thanks to the new German Renewable Energy Law, which gives priority to the wind power and solar energy from the energy produced by coal and gas. The renewable energy is expanding quickly and unimaginably then before. Guenther Mugel, deputy mayor of the town, says: “I think the people of the town were amazed by the quick transformation of energy produce”
Berlin estimated that the total cost of this transformation project could be up to one trillion euros. Claudia Kimfirt, an energy expert at the German Institute for Economic Research, says: “The fear of the Germans has always been the power outage and the danger of nuclear energy. Now they are afraid of the new experiment of the shift in power. There will always be a poor management in the process, and there is an urgent need to improve government.”
Pressure will be increased on the new government in order to rethink the process of Germany in this prominent project, and it will be monitored globally. Said Ulrich Grillo, president of the German Federation Industries: “It was always clear that there is a price for that, but they were getting into new engineering energy that supplies without the presence of an engineer”
It is expected that most of the production of alternative energy in Germany will be in the north, which requires high-pressure lines for electric power transmission to the south. But the creation of these lines decline, because the Germans do not want to see the view of an ugly electricity pylon near their homes.
Sources:
http://www.wikipedia.org
http://aawsat.com/details.asp?section=31&article=679212&issueno=12235#.UvGtO3mgTf4
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2323207/hollande-deepens-franco-german-renewable-energy-ties
Great job Ms. Alashgar! I found your article Renewable Energy in Germany, to be interesting. Can you please clarify what you mean by “financed by the local population”? Stated in the second paragraph. I find it interesting that locally, people can collaborate to meet common goals on such a great scale.
A trillion dollars seems expensive, but I believe it will pay off in the ling run. It is interesting to think about how Germany as a culture is interested in increasing their sustainability and renewable energy.
Thank you!
Will what I have understood form the research;”financed by the local population” means that they have agreed to pay more taxes to support renewable energy. I have a German friend that have conformed that to me. she and her family do pay more taxes to keep on healthy environment.