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This article states that Germany’s shift towards renewable energy sources following the events of Fukushima in 2011 has proven to be an extremely difficult and expensive task. The implementation of the key guidelines of the new strategy is meeting increasing resistance in the form of economic and legal difficulties. In the immediate future, the German government will make efforts not only to revise its internal regulations in order to enable the realization of the energy transformation; it is also likely to undertake a number of measures at the EU forum which will facilitate this realization.