The federal government has rejected statements by US presidential candidate Donald Trump that there are problems with the switch to renewable energies in Germany. “I don’t know what the presidential candidate means by that,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin on Wednesday. “We were quite astonished by Trump’s statements and don’t think they’re really comprehensible.”
In the TV debate with his Democratic competitor Kamala Harris, the Republican Trump warned against turning away from fossil fuels. “Germany tried that and within a year they started building normal power plants again,” he claimed in his closing remarks.
“Many facts speak against this statement,” said the spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin. The Foreign Office also reacted: “Whether you like it or not: The German energy system is completely functional with more than 50 percent renewables,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on its English-language X channel about a photo of Trump. Coal and nuclear power plants would not be built, but rather shut down.
