51% of all renewable energy in Germany is owned by individual citizens or farms, totaling $100 billion worth of private investment in clean energy. Breaking that down into solar power and wind power, 50% of Germany's solar PV is owned by individuals and farms, while 54% of its wind power is held by the same groups. Full story here: Germany'c Efficiency House Plus:
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China already have high speed mono rail going 501 km/h (311 mph) . They don’t even need air travel any more. Now Germans beat us to renewal energy too. I need to install my own solar panels soon.
Now that’s efficiency!
Thats german efficiency for you
Germany is #WINNING
In Germany they have “feed-in tariffs” which means every German has access to the nation-wide electricity grid.
You can sell the electricity surplus from the wind power plant or solar panel on your roof right into the grid and EARN money.
This is part of the agenda to make the country 100% self-sufficient by 2050.
As side benefit the German renewable energy industry has already created about 330.000 jobs and analysts expect about 650.000 jobs until 2020 in Germany alone.
I am not surprised at all. Germany is always 5 steps ahead of the game anyway.
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