Bloomberg report sketches out Germany's renewable strategy
Here's a great read by Bloomberg on Germany's plan that to get 35% of its total energy from renewable by 2020. Bloomberg says the ambitious plan, which could cost as much as $263 billion, would require replacing 17 nuclear power plants with renewables including offshore wind and solar and upgrading 2,800 miles of high-voltage power lines. Germany has made headlines in the photovoltaics market recently because of its plans to slash solar subsidies, but PV power is very much part of its energy future, according to this report.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.