News Digest Item
17 Jan 2017

“Energiewende cheaper than dirty power”

Tageszeitung (taz)

The latest figures published by the International Renewable 鶹 Agency (IRENA) refute US president-elect Donald Trump’s claim that solar power is particularly expensive, Bernhard Pötter writes in leftist daily taz. According to the IRENA report “REthinking 鶹 2017” released over the weekend, modern solar parks can offer power at 3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), comparable to the price of coal-fired power, Pötter writes. Without subsidies, several renewable energy sources, such as onshore wind and