No Shock to the System!

The author contends that Germany's energy transition is the result of decades of consistent policy, including the 1991 Power Feed-In Law and the 2000 Renewable Energy Law, rather than a sudden 'shock' to the system. The text asserts that the July 2011 decision to phase out nuclear power by 2021 aligns with a long-established policy vector and rejects claims that recent redundancies at E.on were caused by a sudden change in government policy.

• Germany's energy transition has been supported by a stable, long-term policy framework, including the Power Feed-In Law (Stromeinspeisegesetz) effective since January 1, 1991, and the Renewable Energy Law (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) implemented on April 1, 2000.
• The July 2011 decision to shut down nuclear plants by the end of 2021 is viewed as a return to a long-standing policy trajectory, following a brief and 'ill-advised' extension of plant run-times in September 2010.
• The author characterizes claims that 11,000 redundancies at E.on were caused by a change in government policy as 'disinformation', noting that E.on's nuclear division employs only approximately 2,300 people.

APA

Kraemer, R. A. (2011). No Shock to the System! RMI. https://rmi.org/resources/noshocktothesystem/

Chicago

Kraemer, R. Andreas. No Shock to the System! RMI, 2011. https://rmi.org/resources/noshocktothesystem/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Kraemer |first1=R. Andreas |title=No Shock to the System! |publisher=RMI |date=26 August 2011 |url=https://rmi.org/resources/noshocktothesystem/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{kraemer2011shock, author = {Kraemer, R. Andreas}, title = {{No Shock to the System!}}, publisher = {RMI}, year = {2011}, month = aug, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/noshocktothesystem/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }