The Germans bet big on solar. Epic fail.
I’d say in my village of 1,000 homes...ten-percent have solar hooked up. It really went downward after the gov’t said they wouldn’t grant any more tax credits on the deal. What folks figured in the very beginning was that the tax incentive would create a wave, and there would be a stopping point. Well...yeah, there certainly was a stopping point.
Wind energy is starting to hit a problem point now in Germany too. Lot of folks have put up a fuss over landscape issues and saying it’s not right to put the windmills up on hillsides (the only place where you might get a good wind). So they are fighting off new windmill installation via the courts on this deal. Sadly, if you were going to invest in windmills...you have to find a place where you actually have a wind. The landscape dummies are making a joke out of the whole thing now.