{"id":57267,"date":"2017-05-10T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/germany-breaks-renewables-record-with-coal-and-nuclear-power-responsible-for-only-15-of-countrys-total-energy"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:06:32","slug":"germany-breaks-renewables-record-with-coal-and-nuclear-power-responsible-for-only-15-of-countrys-total-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/germany-breaks-renewables-record-with-coal-and-nuclear-power-responsible-for-only-15-of-countrys-total-energy","title":{"rendered":"Germany breaks renewables record with coal and nuclear power responsible for only 15% of country\u2019s total energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/germany-breaks-renewables-record-with-coal-and-nuclear-power-responsible-for-only-15-of-countrys-total-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Germany\">Germany<\/a> has broken a new record for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/renewable-energy\">renewable energy<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/sustainable-energy\">low-carbon<\/a> sources nearly obliterating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/coal\">coal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nuclear\">nuclear<\/a> power last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>At one point on the sunny and breezy Sunday, sustainable energy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wind-power\">wind<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/solar-power\">solar<\/a>, biomass and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hydropower\">hydro<\/a> power provided a record 85 per cent of the country\u2019s total energy.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has been investing heavily in renewables, as part of the government\u2019s Energiewende initiative to transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear power to a low carbon, environmentally sound, reliable, and affordable energy supply by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/germany-renewable-energy-record-coal-nuclear-power-energiewende-low-carbon-goals-a7719006.html?cmpid=facebook-post\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/germany-renew...ebook-post<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany has broken a new record for renewable energy, with low-carbon sources nearly obliterating coal and nuclear power last weekend. At one point on the sunny and breezy Sunday, sustainable energy from wind, solar, biomass and hydro power provided a record 85 per cent of the country\u2019s total energy. Germany has been investing heavily in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,873,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-nuclear-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}