Alemania, gigante solar, o los efectos de la ley EEG de 2000

Alemania produce el 55 por ciento de la energía fotovoltaica mundial generada en paneles solares, a pesar que las nubes acompañen sus dias dos tercios del tiempo. Erik Kirschbaum escribe para Reuters el 29 de Julio sobre la ley de 2000, que ha convertido esta fuente de energía en un sector económico boyante, con un crecimiento en las exportaciones y el empleo que ha roto expectativas (www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2389939520070730) . Kirschbaum recalls that Germany´s photovoltaic systems generate 3,000 megawatts of power: 1,000 times more than in 1990. This is coupled with 250,000 jobs in the renewables energy sector, which are expected to double in solar power alone (90,000) in the next five years, and hit 200,000 in 2020.
So far just 3 percent of Germany's electricity comes from the sun, but the government wants to raise the share of renewables to 27 percent of all energy by 2020 from 13 percent.
It is a thriving industry, with booming exports, growing at rates that surpassed the optimistic forecasts made by the fathers of the pioneering 2000 renewable energy law. This law, known as the EEG law, forces for 20 years power companies to buy daylight electricity at more than triple market prices .
They are legions of homeowners, farmers and small businesses who are capitalizing on the government-backed march into renewable energy, together with the grassroots movement in the fight against climate change.