Gawel, Erik; Strunz, Sebastian; Lehmann, Paul - 2014
It is often argued that Germany's energy transition (the so-called "Energiewende") needs to be "Europeanized", so as to … criticized for being an obstacle to efficient European energy supply. However, we point out that Germany's approach is no outlier … but rather well embedded in the European context of heterogeneous energy policies. Also, full centralization of energy …