She also was key in the passage of the Timber Theft Law, which deals with those who steal timber from private or public lands, and in expanding net metering to encourage investment
in renewable power production including solar, wind and waste energy.
«We've looked
at renewable power production alone for too long,» Joachim Pfeiffer, conservative MP and the CDU's spokesperson on energy, recently told the Clean Energy Wire.
This coalition of U.S organizations is working to change the politics of clean energy in that country by highlighting the alignment
between renewable power production and conservative values.
On the rare spring and summer days when bright sunshine comes with strong winds,
pushing renewable power production to a peak, Germany can almost cover its entire electricity demand with green power, at least for a few hours at a time.
In contrast, the modern high - tech approach of matching energy supply to energy demand at all times requires a lot of extra infrastructure which
makes renewable power production a complex, slow, expensive and unsustainable undertaking.
We can use the grid to decouple
the renewable power production from when we want energy.
Number one, front and center, we can use the grid to decouple
the renewable power production from when we want energy.
For instance,
renewable power production will increase by half between 2013 and 2020, the IEA says, with some green sources now competitive with new fossil generation in come countries.