EU energy chief asks Germany to drop energy isolation

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Reuters: Berlin, Jan 23 2013, 03:30 IST

Germany must turn away from its go-it-alone energy shift and work more with the European Union to build a cost-efficient, secure and sustainable sector, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Tuesday.

“Germany has to make its energy transformation compatible with Europe,” Oettinger said on the opening day of Germany’s most prestigious energy gathering, the three-day annual Handelsblatt conference. “Germany will only succeed and we will only get the authority to speak for our energy interests worldwide when we in the EU act as partners,” he added.

Oettinger, a German national, has often criticised the speed of Germany’s shift away from nuclear energy after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The shift entails supporting renewable energy at ever-rising costs, burdening consumers with higher prices and distorting market patterns via supply volatility.

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Germany you are doing it correctly; do not corrupt it with nukes.Either life or nukes. We want to live.

Ramaswami Kumar | 31-Jan-2013Reply | Forward

Humanity is speeding towards extinction with nuclear energy which is consuming all the energy it produces and more. Germany must not put the clock back. Let her go the whole hog with non nukes. I wish her god speed. See by googling energy audit of the indian nuclear programme.