Whatever your politics, you must obey the laws of physics. Solar and wind are simply not dense enough to be economic and power a modern industrial society. the Germans have also abandoned nuclear power. Their big green initiative is not the first time Germany has made a catastrophic strategic blunder.
Yeah....and just wait till the lack of sunspots kicks in (due to lower magnetic field on the Sun)...and we enter another 400 year long mini ice age.
That's the crux of the issue. Everyone fixates on dropping panel costs; but the panels could be free and the energy from the sun would still be the same. Not to mention the fact that it goes away at night.
I'd have thought the Germans much smarter about this.