ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Home Energy Special on "Ask This Old House"

In a special episode of Ask This Old House, Richard and Kevin take a trip to Germany to discover how the country has become a world leader in energy efficiency. They find answers in the mechanical rooms of a home and a bed and breakfast. Plus, Kevin and Ross head to Texas to install a residential wind turbine in Texas.

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Ask TOH | Home Energy Special

• Home Energy Special | Ask TOH Episodes | Ask This Old House TV | This Old House
• Original Air Date: October 22, 2015
• Season 14: Ep. 04
• 23:43

Germany's planned nuclear switch-off drives energy innovation | Environment | The Guardian

Wind turbines in front of a coal-fired power plant near Bergheim, Germany.

Photograph DPA/Alamy

While Britain visualises a nuclear future, Angela Merkel’s aim of replacing it with renewables by 2022 is well under way...

Hinkley Point will be the first nuclear power plant to be built in Europe since the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima reactor in 2011. But while the British government sees nuclear energy as a safe and reliable source of power, Germany is going in a different direction.

Solar panel roofs in Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

Photograph Imagebroker/Rex Shutterstock

As a result of the Fukushima, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to switch off all nuclear power by 2022 and fill the gap with renewables – a process known as the energiewende (energy transition)...

more: Germany's planned nuclear switch-off drives energy innovation | Environment | The Guardian

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