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Podcast: Energy Gang
Episode: Germany: A Clean Energy Success Story Or Cautionary Tale?
Description: Everyone agrees Germany is a renewable energy powerhouse. But not everyone agrees on how that’s benefitted the country.
The web is littered with conflicting opinion pieces on the German experience – some claiming the country’s aggressive promotion of renewables is an oncoming economic disaster, and some saying those concerns are far overblown, if not totally false. So what are we to believe?
In this week's show, we'll look at Germany's evolving relationship with renewables, the impact on electricity prices and the outlook for its nuclear phase-out.
Then we'll travel to Japan, which is undergoing a rapid transition after a sudden...