Germany Expands Its Electricity Network

BUETZOW, GERMANY – AUGUST 08: A worker runs a thin cable up a newly-constructed transmission tower before hanging overhead power lines on August 8, 2012 near Buetzow, Germany. The German government is shuttering the country’s nuclear power plants and is seeking to replace production capacity with power from renewable energy sources, especially wind turbines and solar parks, though the plan requires biilions of Euros in investments to expand the country’s electricity transmission grid. ()