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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, that was imprecise. The correct German term would be Energiewirtschaft, that can be translated to energy industry. That's not only electricity, but also production of biogas, district heating, refining of fossil fuels and so on. The struggling departments from worst to slightly struggling are: -transportation: widespread use of fossil fuels -building: heating with fossil fuels and emissions from concrete -industry: high use of energy and no alternative to fossil fuels in some cases

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great that the plan is for the entire economy. Cheap and reliable clean electricity is possibly the most important and straightforward(ish) issue to solve with steel and concrete sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum.