Germany?s Energy Win-Win

Grist points out in the wake of Fox New?s blunder on German solar what really makes the energy change program work.

It isn?t just the move to renewable energy sources. They also bought back the power grid and made it a public asset. Much of the energy generation is owned by regular people. They own the solar panels on their roofs. The public also owns many of the larger renewable energy generation facilities. There is also far less red tape for adding a system and more programs that help people obtain home generation ability.

In the US, renewable energy has all been at the whim of Wall Street.

?Fox News? gaffe about sunshine helps others paper over the real tragedy of American energy policy. In a country founded on the concept of self-reliance (goodbye, tea imports!), we finance clean energy with?tax credits that make wind and solar reliant on Wall Streetinstead of Main Street. We largely preclude participation by the ordinary citizen unless they?give up ownership?of their renewable energy system to a leasing company. We make clean energy a complicated alternative to business as usual, while the cloudy, windless Germans make the energy system of the future by making it stupid easy and financially rewarding.?

Just imagine what energy democracy could do for the US economy and the lot of the average person.

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