This week the team highlights articles focusing on the problems created by California's renewable energy mandates including blackouts and price spikes, as well as Germany's experience with renewable energy mandates and the consequences of their policies. Also, get a preview of the latest episode of the Plugged In podcast featuring Lisa Linowes of Wind Action.

Links

• ARTICLE Renewable Mandates Are Leading to Electricity Shortages and Price Spikes in California: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/renewable-mandates-are-leading-to-electricity-shortages-and-price-spikes-in-california/

• ARTICLE Checking in on Europe’s Green Utopia: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/checking-in-on-europes-green-utopia/

• PODCAST Plugged In Podcast #57: Lisa Linowes on Wind Industry Subsidies: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind/plugged-in-podcast-57-lisa-linowes-on-wind-industry-subsidies/

• REPORT The 100 Percent Renewable Energy Myth: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-100-percent-renewable-energy-myth/

• BLOG IER's latest analysis of COVID-19's impacts on world energy: www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/tag/covid-19/