Comment Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? (Score 2) 473
And the kicker is they dont change anything other than your bill. You CANT buy only "green" energy unless you go off grid and set up your own solar/wind farm.
This is true if you get "green energy" from a company that supplies "green" and "conventional" energy. But e.g. we have switched to Lichtblick, a company that only sells "green energy". So my money goes to lichtblick, and they have to supply an equivalent amount of energy to the grid.
While technically I might get nuclear energy, my money is supporting only green energy. So this actually makes a different (and this is actually a lot cheaper than conventional energy from the former monopoly companies.