History of the energy transition in Germany: from the 1950s to 2019
Ortwin Renn1 and Jonathan Paul Marshall2, 1Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Berliner Strasse, Potsdam, Germany, 2University of Technology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia
Abstract
Over the last 50 years, German energy policy has ranged from strong enthusiasm to deep skepticism for both coal and nuclear energy. The most dramatic changes with respect to energy policies have occurred as a response to nuclear accidents, yet the accidental and unintended effects of coal policies are also important in influencing the trajectory. The newly emerging climate debate prevented the coal industry from acting as a substitute for the ...
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