In Germany, many more wind turbines are needed if the energy transition is to succeed as the traffic light envisages.
Image: Frank Rumpenhorst
A large part of the population seems willing to follow the path to transformation, but not at any price. The Greens and the activists close to them obviously still have to learn that.
An evergreen of order-economic thinking is the warning against intervention spirals. They arise when interventionist policies lead to (usually unsurprising) problems that prompt politicians to respond with further interventions. They usually cause additional grief.
A current example are the misguided attempts by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which is in the midst of personnel policy calamities, to advance the green transformation. This goes hand in hand with a growing demand for electricity, to which the government reacted, primarily for ideological reasons, by shutting down nuclear power plants that could have run for a few more years. At the same time, the expansion of renewable energy sources is not progressing fast enough.