Germany Offers Model of Energy Self-Sufficiency
Biomass-powered villages in Germany's heartland may offer a model for U.S. towns questing for energy self-sufficiency Full Story »
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Posted by J Sinclaire - Jul 8, 2009 - 9:29 AM PDT
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Dwight Rousu - Jul 8, 2009 - 2:39 PM PDT
The good news is that this article show us what can happen with leadership and political will. The bad news is that Germany is 15 years ahead of the US in this area according to one source.
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A good story as far as it goes. A big piece missing is the fiscal relationship between the government and the energy producers.
While the German system for FIT's has been very successful at encouraging the uptake of solar-electric, if the same system is being used for biomass energy, there are serious fish hooks for the consumer. The Biomass users would be wise to use as much energy internally and only sell to the grid what is left over.
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This is a good article illustrating why Europe in general, and Germany in particular, is so far ahead of the US when it comes to renewable energy...and biomass power in particular. Michael Scott Moore is doing good work for Miller-McCune covering European solutions to climate change.
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I think the stories like this are very important. I am a very big believe in capitalistic approaches to alternative energy and this fits that bill.
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