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As a German I hate to break it to you Germany, but didn't you kill your advanced clean technology more than ten years ago for fucking coal? And everybody said it would be a fatal mistake, we would be left behind?
I'm a surprised Pikachu.
Well, except that is was cheap Russian gas and not coal. Otherwise spot on.
For wind turbines that is still strong. It is just solar that is the problem. For the most part that was doing well, due to heavy subsidies for new solar installations in Germany. As soon as Chinese solar panels appeared, they were cheaper then German ones. Then subsidies got slashed at the same time and protection was low. So the domestic market shrunk a lot, while China was taking market share. Really bad government response.