The USA is being left in the dust by more progressive countries.

Does Germany assist its allies in attaining such a state of grace?

Not that I've seen or heard.

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/07/25/business/germany-to-assist-in-renewable-energy/

With 330 days of sunlight, more than 300 kilometers of a strong wind corridor, flowing rivers and vast agricultural lands; Pakistan is an ideal country to generate power from solar, wind, biogas and hydel sources. These were the views of German officials and experts in green energy as they talked to the Pakistani delegation consisting of Independent Project Development Facility (IPDF) CEO Adil Anwar, National Forum President & Energy Update Managing Editor Naeem Qureshi, Renewble Energy Society (Research) Chairman Dr Allah Nawaz Qaiserani and Secretary General Iftekhar Qaiseranion, former MNA Ghulam Murtaza Satti, Khushnood Shaikh from APP news agency & Dr Farhan from Water and Power Ministry during a recent visit to Germany on the invitation of German Foreign Office.
Purpose of the visit:
The purpose of the invitation was to help the Pakistani delegation understand what Germany could do for Pakistan in the alternative energy sector and what future possibilities could exist for Pak-German cooperation in the said area. Divisional Head for Cultural and Media Relations with Africa, Asia, Australia and the Pacific and Latin America Caribbean at the German Foreign Office Micheal Siebert said that great potential existed for cooperation between the two countries to capitalise alternative energy and Pakistan could do more with German assistance and expertise. “We are working with our partners in Europe, China, Africa and we also wish to do this in Pakistan. We want to transfer technology regarding solar energy”, he added. He said that Germany will cut its carbon emissions by 80 to 95 per cent by 2050 and improve its energy efficiency by 2.1 per cent.
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is not help. It's business.

Desk Officer for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development Torge Matthiesen said that Germany has contributed a total amount of 768 million euros to the energy sector in Pakistan.

He said that the total worth of finanlised programmes in the energy sector is about 527 million euros. Germany has provided over 200 million euros for the construction of various small and medium size hydel projects and installation and rehabilitation of transmission lines in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa during 2009-10. “We will provide another 48.5 million euros for the development of alternative energy and energy efficiency this year,” he added.

He said that out of this amount, about 100 million euros are for small and medium size hydel projects in KPK including Lavi, Trapphi, Basho, Harpo, Keyal Khawar while the rest is for laying transmission lines including those at Gakkhar and Gazi Roads.

God forbid, the Germans who are raping Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, should actually GIVE AWAY a money-making opportunity...

http://www.pakistan.diplo.de/Vertretung/pakistan/en/08__Development/0__Development__Projects/Energy/Harpo2.html

The Federal Republic of Germany through KfW Development Bank extended a Grant in Aid fund of Euro 650,000 to the Pakistan Government for conducting a Feasibility Study on harnessing hydropower potential in the Harpo Valley some 70km downstream of Skardu City. From the German side, the financing agreement over 20 Million EUR for constructing the Harpo Hydropower Project was signed in December last year.

Subsequently, the French development financing agency AFD joined hands for co-financing the project construction:
The French co-financing agreement was signed with the Government of Pakistan on April 3, 2014. Representatives of the German Embassy, KfW, EU, and the implementing agency WAPDA witnessed the occasion.
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Grant in aid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant-in-aid

A grant-in-aid is money coming from central government for a specific project. This kind of funding is usually used when the government and parliament have decided that the recipient should be publicly funded but operate with reasonable independence from the state.

In the United Kingdom, most bodies in receipt of grants-in-aid are non-departmental public bodies.[citation needed]

A grant-in-aid is funds allocated by one level of government to another level of government to be used for specific purposes. Such funds are usually accompanied by requirements and standards set by the governing body for how they are to be spent. An example of this would be how the United States Congress required states to raise the drinking age for alcohol from 18 to 21 in order for the individual states to continue to qualify for federal funds for interstate highways located within each state
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i.e., not a loan

The grant is the freebie to do the "feasibility" study. The lure for the fish.

Germany did not have to help those countries you mentioned and if those countries didn't like the arrangements, they could have refused to accept it.

It's business.

at that.

Germany could have done a lot of things with that money internally. Neither they nor their government were irresponsible to begin with. It is not their fault that those countries screwed themselves up.

and I don't have the interest in trying to bring you up to speed.

And it is clear from your responses to me at every turn you have a serious bias against Germany for whatever reason.

They are helping their neighbors increase the amount of renewables-generated electricity on their grids - because they need to dump that generation and someone has to take it for them. Isnt' that nice of them?

Oh... and it gets better. They pay the neighbors for the privelege and then pay them again when they have to buy electricity when the renewables aren't generating enough.

eom

Your one word answer said it all.

Julie

in Texas and it turns out the Electricians Lobby sewed it up. They make it hard to do to discourage these businesses with numerous restrictions to ownership, installation... They want us to burn every last drop of oil 1st!

The writing says: every nation on earth will soon be forced to acknowledge that human caused global climate change is a reality.

Pretending this isn't true, so the politically and financially connected can profit, will not change that reality.

That is why Al Gore called this phenomenon an inconvenient truth.

This is bad timing on the part of the United States of America. Exactly at the moment in history, when we should have kept corporate interference to a minimum, we chose to extend them every possible avenue to control the nation.

and the Asians stole the whole shebang for profits. The Germans installed it, the rest is history.

conservation as well.

not 100% sure though

so, it could never work here... according to Fox News.

If we had followed Jimmy Carter's lead and plunged headlong into solar power, and other renewables, starting in the 70s. We'd probably have broken 75% before Germany...