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January 16, 2013

Should Germany Nationalize Its Grid?

Editors, Der Spiegel


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Germany urgently needs to expand and update its power grid to meet its goal of phasing out nuclear energy and going green, but development appears to have short circuited. A member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet is calling for a radical change: the partial nationalization of the grid.

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