Spiegel International published an extended article by Matthias Shulz in July 2013 which took a long, withering look at the exponential growth of the wind farm industry in Germany and its effects on the country’s social and environmental fabric.

“For a long time”, hde writes, “the companies grew fat on feed-in tariffs, which provide guaranteed prices for green energy at above-market prices subsidized by the government via surcharges on consumers’ power bills. Indeed, an entire industrial sector developed into a subsidy giant. The result? Bloated firms with excess capacity.”

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