This was the promise of Energiewende: >The promise was sweet: Germany's transition towards a low-carbon society would cost the average household no more than €

This was the promise of Energiewende: >The promise was sweet: Germany's transition towards a low-carbon society would cost the average household no more than €1 ($1.1) per month, "the price of a scoop of ice cream," as Jürgen Trittin, then minister for the environment, put it in 2004. So please don't try to rewrite the history. It was supposed to be cheap.