https://energytransition.org/2019/09/look-to-europe-to-improve-the-green-new-deal-why-laws-matter/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://energytransition.org/2019/09/look-to-europe-to-improve-the-green-new-deal-why-laws-matter/#comment-15705 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:03:53 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20833#comment-15705 The mother of electricity market reform in Europe was Margaret Thatcher. Her Electricity Act of 1989, inspired by Professor Peter Littlewood, broke up the CEGB monopoly, keeping the unified national grid as market manager. But the timeline doesn’t fit the German experience. The EEG of 2000 was adopted IIRC before Germany sort of adopted the British/EU model.

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