Germany's Energiewende, or energy transition, is an ambitious policy aiming to move the country's electricity generation away from both nuclear and fossil-fuel sources. More a slogan than a coherent plan, the term represents the German government's desire to cut carbon emissions by 70% from 1990 levels by 2040, while switching off all the country's nuclear-power plants by 2022. In the long term that means generating more energy from renewable sources.
The Economist: Getting out of gas
View of the building housing the Russian gas giant German branch Gazprom Germania headquarters in Berlin taken March 17, 2014.
