Germany has encountered resistance both to additional onshore wind projects and to the necessary transmission infrastructure for moving onshore wind power aroun

Germany has encountered resistance both to additional onshore wind projects and to the necessary transmission infrastructure for moving onshore wind power around the country: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/fighting-windmills-when-growth-hits-resistance https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/fighting-windmill... https://www.dw.com/en/germany-protesters-oppose-suedlink-wind-energy-cable/a-48437451 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-protesters-oppose-suedlink-win... There is less resistance to offshore wind projects and to small scale distributed solar. Both of these generating resources are more expensive than onshore wind farms. Even in the matter of distributed solar, note that the peak installation rate was back in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#Generat... Germany not only installed a lot of a particularly expensive kind of renewable capacity (distributed solar). It did most of that installation some time ago when it was even more expensive to install. And it did so in a very sunlight-constrained climate, so each kilowatt of capacity generates much less energy than in Italy, Spain, or the US. Since industry threatened to just relocate if higher electricity costs were passed on, residential and commercial electricity customers have borne the financial brunt of the renewable buildout while heavy industry was spared. The UK did better by phasing out coal in favor of gas faster than Germany and not installing significant solar capacity until the hardware had become much cheaper. The UK's renewable additions were almost exclusively wind until 2011. The UK started deploying significant solar several years later than Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Kingdom#Solar_PV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_King... Between deliberately choosing to pioneer solar PV installations in a low-sun country, phasing out nuclear power, and acting to placate the powerful domestic coal lobby, Germany has really spent a lot of money to accomplish a very modest degree of decarbonization.