Germany is far from being "green". They are in the process of building 25 new coal fired power stations to take up the slack from inefficient wind "power" alongside their panic decision to shut down all nuclear power and are set to build more gas fired power stations. Germans don't do irony do they?
Over here the scourge of renewable energy just keeps growing and yet ill-informed Guardian readers still insist that there should be more of this stuff.
To see the stupidity of this madness check out the live stats from the UK national grid here:
http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
Note that as it stands wind power accounts for somewhere in the region of three or four percent of our electricity all depending on whether the wind blows to hard or not enough.
In order to reach the governments targets for more wind power we will have to multiply the amount of windmills by a factor of.......well you work it out.
We narrowly dodged a bullet a few years ago when ecotricity (contricity in other words) were denied a wind farm in the beautiful surroundings near our white cliffs.
If they try to apply again I suspect things will be alot different in terms of the outcome.