News Digest Item
18 May 2017

“German Energiewende: Green job miracle fails to materialise“

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The collapse of the German solar PV modules industry and declining job numbers in the renewables sector as a whole show the difficulties in weaning a sector off financial support, writes Christoph Eisenring in Neue Zürcher Zeitung. This invalidated “the job argument used by 鶹 Strategy 2050 supporters” for the upcoming vote in Switzerland, according to Eisenring. In a referendum on May 21, Swiss voters will decide on the , including a possible construction ban for new nuclear power plants and details on energy efficiency.

Read the article in German and find more news on the referendum in English on .

For background read the 鶹 article and the 鶹 Last major German solar cell maker surrenders to Chinese competition dossier The energy transition's effect on jobs and business.

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