Germany has handed China the solar market back then in 2012. It’s called the “Altmaierknick” (Altmaier-Dent). Peter Altmaier (back then environmental minister, luckily out of politics now) and Katharina Reiche (back then environmental secretary) were measurably responsible for the loss of 100,000 jobs in Germany’s solar sector because they made solar purposefully inattractive for private owners. Solar energy production shrunk by 70% or so. I read that a year later or so after Altmaier previously criticized the Chinese gov for substituting solar businesses, he suddenly agreed that Germany should sell solar tech to China so they could speed up their clean energy transformation. The EU was involved in that somehow, too.
Both Altmaier and Reiche are of course conservatives (CDU) and they therefore had/have vested interests in conserving the fossil fuel industry. With Reiche it’s openly known that she has deep ties to them. It’s very coherent they would sabotage clean energy.
Reiche is now minister of economy at a time when fossil fuel dependency shows it’s uglier face she sure will continue the phenomenal course of the Greens/SPD in the previous government, right? (the graph shows the annual growth of solar grouped by different German governments).
From 2006 to 2021 every coalition was dominated by the conservative CDU (and once neo-lib FDP in 2010-2013). 2022-2025 was the first government with a non-governing CDU in 16 years, now with Greens, social democrats and the ultimate downfall of it, the neo-liberal FDP. One can see on the graph what Habeck and the other Greens had accomplished.
To add insult to injury Habeck as an economy minister excelled on Katharina Reiches expertise (as an ex CEO of fossil fuel companies) where she fails spectacularily: Habeck (who allegedly destroyed Germany’s economy according to many Germans) established a pretty constant natural gas reserve fill level of 90-100% after making contracts all over the world and cutting ties with Russia when their little spec-op began. Build-Up of LPG terminals was a result where he additionally had green hydrogen in mind before the coalition was sabotaged and we had the conservatives back 1 year earlier than the regular 4-year term.
The US has already handed china the EV market. May as well give them AI too.
Germany has handed China the solar market back then in 2012. It’s called the “Altmaierknick” (Altmaier-Dent). Peter Altmaier (back then environmental minister, luckily out of politics now) and Katharina Reiche (back then environmental secretary) were measurably responsible for the loss of 100,000 jobs in Germany’s solar sector because they made solar purposefully inattractive for private owners. Solar energy production shrunk by 70% or so. I read that a year later or so after Altmaier previously criticized the Chinese gov for substituting solar businesses, he suddenly agreed that Germany should sell solar tech to China so they could speed up their clean energy transformation. The EU was involved in that somehow, too.
Both Altmaier and Reiche are of course conservatives (CDU) and they therefore had/have vested interests in conserving the fossil fuel industry. With Reiche it’s openly known that she has deep ties to them. It’s very coherent they would sabotage clean energy.
Reiche is now minister of economy at a time when fossil fuel dependency shows it’s uglier face she sure will continue the phenomenal course of the Greens/SPD in the previous government, right? (the graph shows the annual growth of solar grouped by different German governments).
From 2006 to 2021 every coalition was dominated by the conservative CDU (and once neo-lib FDP in 2010-2013). 2022-2025 was the first government with a non-governing CDU in 16 years, now with Greens, social democrats and the ultimate downfall of it, the neo-liberal FDP. One can see on the graph what Habeck and the other Greens had accomplished.
To add insult to injury Habeck as an economy minister excelled on Katharina Reiches expertise (as an ex CEO of fossil fuel companies) where she fails spectacularily: Habeck (who allegedly destroyed Germany’s economy according to many Germans) established a pretty constant natural gas reserve fill level of 90-100% after making contracts all over the world and cutting ties with Russia when their little spec-op began. Build-Up of LPG terminals was a result where he additionally had green hydrogen in mind before the coalition was sabotaged and we had the conservatives back 1 year earlier than the regular 4-year term.
Same egregious stuff as everywhere.