The goal of Energiewende was to crush the price of renewable generation, and it looks like that’s happened. It just turns out that the fastest way to accomplish

The goal of Energiewende was to crush the price of renewable generation, and it looks like that’s happened. It just turns out that the fastest way to accomplish this was for manufacturing to occur in China, where it’s consistently cheaper year after year. If you set up an optimization problem on one metric, you can’t be surprised when it doesn’t optimize for a different one.