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Contents 1 Proposed Merger 2 Renewable Energy in Germany Translation from Spanish 3 Translator's Notes To Other Editors 4 Translation Of Spanish Article 4.1 Policy 4.2 Photovoltaic solar power 4.3 Table

[edit] Proposed Merger

Support: I believe that the Wind power in Germany article would fit well merged with this article. It would help give more information to renewable energy in Germany, enhancing that project. In addition, it would be a step towards removing it's "stub" status. As a side note, I've taken an interest in this project, because I'm translating stuff from the Spanish version of this article. If you see that I've added anything that conflicts with current information or that's just plain wrong, let me know. At this point, if there is a conflict in info, I am just leaving this page's current version of it (keeping it as is in English).

Oppose: I think it's great that you're planning to expand this page, but Germany is the world's largest user of wind power, so if any country deserves a separate wind power article it is Germany. It is one of a series of wind power articles, see Wind power in Denmark, Wind power in Spain, Wind power in the United States, which has been usefully linked to many other articles. I am presently in touch with two German Wikipedians in an effort to get more info about wind power in Germany and expect to expand that article in a week or so. -- Johnfos 05:54, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Initial expansion of Wind power in Germany complete, and original content moved here. -- Johnfos 08:02, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Renewable Energy in Germany Translation from Spanish

Hi, I'm writing this note because I was interested in doing the translation of the (more complete) article from Spanish. I had wondered if this article in Spanish in the Spanish Wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energías_renovables_en_Alemania had been translated into the English article Renewable energy in Germany. There's a lot of info in the Spanish article that isn't in the English article, especially regarding governmental policy and biofuels. However, I saw in the Wikipedia:Translation/Renewable energy in Germany Request for Translation that Icehcky8 started to do the translation. However the status bar indicated '0'. I was wondering if Icehcky8 had completed it and relevant sections were shifted to other articles. If it has been finished, perhaps you could drop me a note at my userpage. Otherwise I may assume it hasn't been finished and I may start to try to figure out what has already been done and go from there. However, a note either way at User talk:AnFu would be very helpfull. Thank you very much. AnFu 22:35, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translator's Notes To Other Editors

In the Spanish article, often 'energy' was used and I wasn't sure if what was really meant was 'electricity'. Maybe the Spanish editors meant 'energy' in the general sense of all types of 'energy'. Therefore I usually left it as 'energy', except in cases when i felt sure that it most likely, or could only, refer to one type of 'energy' that is 'electricity'. I will leave it to editors who are more familiar with the subject to modify 'energy' as needed.AnFu 18:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translation Of Spanish Article

Please leave this copy here as is in order to provide a constant, stable reference for other editors and to reduce the chances of important information or details being deleted into non-existence in the article. Please leave for several months to maybe a year. I will be inserting translated parts as I progress. Thank you.AnFu 18:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

N.T.: Please note there is a footnote/reference imbeded in the text. Maybe someone who knows how can duplicate the citation in the 'references' section, if needed.AnFu 20:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Policy

The renewable energy sector benefited when the European Free Alliance Alliance '90/The Greens party joined the Federal Government between 1998 and 2005. The renewable energy sector was aided especially by the law that required businesses to buy energy generated from renewable sources first before buying energy from non-renewable sources. People who produce energy in their own homes have a guarantee by the government that they can sell their 'product' at fixed prices for a period of 20 years. This has created a surge in the production of clean energy.

For the 2005-2010 period the Federal Government set aside nearly 800 millon euros for scientific research in the country. That research is going to be earmarked for policies of long-lasting development.

Additionally, in 2001 a law passed requiring the closing of all nuclear power plants within a period of 32 years. The idea is that in 2020 nuclear energy will not be used anywhere in the country.

The German energy policy is framed within the European Union, and the March 2007 European Council in Brussels aproved an mandatory energy plan that requires a 20% reduction of carbon dioxide emissions before the year 2020 and the consumption of renewable energies to be 20% of total EU consumption (compared to 7% in 2006)^[1]. The accord indirectly acknowledged the role of nuclear energy -- which is not renewable -- in the reduction of the emission of Greenhouse gas, allowing each member state to decide whether or not to use nuclear generated electricity.

Also a compromise was reached to achieve a minimum quota of 10% Biofuels in the total consumption of gasoline y Diesel in transport in 2020.

See also: Nuclear energy policy, Berlin Declaration (2007), Common Foreign and Security Policy

[edit] Photovoltaic solar power

I added a request for citation because I couldn't find the numbers quoted on the page in the source and it looks like the numbers in the last paragraph of this section don't add up. Here is another source which might help. [1] 131.89.192.111 11:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table

The table incorrectly listed the units as GWh when in fact they are TWh. This probably arose from a mistranslation of "Milliarden" into million instead of billion. wagsbags (talk) 16:36, 3 January 2008 (UTC)