The goal is complete decarbonization until 2045 and a lot of sectors in Germany are already on track with that goal, energy being one of them. That with a minister of finance, that does not want to spend money and a minister of transportation, that is more a puppet of the automobile industry and does not care about decarbonization. Imagine the US without the huge subsidies into clean energy. That's what Germany is trying to do under their current minister of finance.

[–] Iceblade02@lemdit.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Energy or electricity? Those are two very different things.

[–] Sodis@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, that was imprecise. The correct German term would be Energiewirtschaft, that can be translated to energy industry. That's not only electricity, but also production of biogas, district heating, refining of fossil fuels and so on. The struggling departments from worst to slightly struggling are: -transportation: widespread use of fossil fuels -building: heating with fossil fuels and emissions from concrete -industry: high use of energy and no alternative to fossil fuels in some cases

[–] Iceblade02@lemdit.com 1 points 1 year ago

Great that the plan is for the entire economy. Cheap and reliable clean electricity is possibly the most important and straightforward(ish) issue to solve with steel and concrete sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum.