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Is Germany Leading the Way on Green Energy Transition?
It didn't last long, but the fourth largest economy in the world set a kind of record this week for renewable energy.
By Warren Olney • • 10m ListenIt didn't last long, but the fourth largest economy in the world set a kind of record this week for renewable energy.
Wind farm in Lower Saxony, Germany
Photo: Phillip May
Sometime around noon this past Sunday, 90% of Germany's total electricity demand was powered by wind, solar, hydro and biomass. There was so much renewable energy that government had to pay people to use it. Chis Nelder is an energy futurist and electricity manager at the Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He's also host of a podcast called The Energy Transition Show.
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Chris Nelder
Rocky Mountain Institute
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