3.8 - Germany Wind Energy

Question 1

How much did renewables subsidisation change by?

Answer 1

3.5% to 30% in 2015

Question 2

Germany did what to reduce wind energy investors’ payback time

Answer 2

Increase energy prices so consumers paid, and businesses earned, more to decrease it from 20 years

Question 3

Germany now have what aim

Answer 3

40-50% of wind energy by 2025

Question 4

Germany want to do what to nuclear?

Answer 4

Phase it out but this means temporarily using more coal and ga stations increasing bad environmental impacts

Question 5

However Germany aren’t doing anything with?

Answer 5

Getting consumers to be more ‘green’ e.g. electric cars, solar panels?, insulation

Question 6

Government want to replace feed-in tariffs with what?

Answer 6

Getting investors to bid against each other to build new solar/wind to increase efficiency

Question 7

Problems with global agreements

Answer 7

Countries have other priorities like economic growth
Developing argue they don’t contribute to GHG much
Many countries/consumers can’t afford renewables as more expensive than FF
Countries still have FF reserves they want to use