Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

And even poor regions will benefit from a secure, decentralized supply of cheap, renewable energy in some time. Especially for these regions, this is a real opportunity to generate prosperity and catch up with us.

Rather not. Let's strike out the buzzwords and look at it soberly. On the one hand, supply with solar or wind is anything but guaranteed. At night you simply don't have sun and also not always wind. So you need storage or backup. On the other hand, with photovoltaics, wind, etc., you have almost all the costs at the beginning. Bad if you have no money, are barely creditworthy, and accordingly pay high interest rates. Developing and emerging countries therefore prefer to build a cheap coal power plant and then pay for the coal when it is consumed. That may be more expensive after 20 or 30 years than an "renewable" system right away, but the difference is simply many years of having electricity or not having electricity. And without electricity it is absolutely certain that there will be no economic development.

There is an article on the topic in Focus... "Expropriation through the back door".... Anyone over 75 who can no longer get a loan must sell... Those who do get a loan then leave debts to their children... Bravo

One can only hope for the FDP to put an end to this madness

As a liberal economist, you can surely help me with my math problem: If there is a loan on a house worth X of 0.2*X, how do I then inherit debts as a child? Wouldn't I actually inherit assets of 0.8*X? So no expropriation, except in the highly qualitative headline. Hardship cases without the possibility of a normal loan should of course be helped (e.g., interest-free loan with repayment from the inheritance).

Rather no. Let's strike out the buzzwords and look at it soberly. On the one hand, supply with solar or wind is anything but guaranteed. At night you simply have no sun and not always wind either. So you need storage or backup. On the other hand, with photovoltaic, wind, and co., you have almost all the costs at the beginning. Bad if you have no money, are hardly creditworthy, and accordingly pay high interest rates. Developing and emerging countries therefore prefer to build a cheap coal power plant and then pay for the coal when it is consumed. That may be more expensive after 20 or 30 years than immediately going for a "renewable" system, but the difference is many years of electricity or no electricity at all. And without electricity, it is quite certain that there will be no economic development.

With the mentality of always just explaining why something doesn’t work when, we really don’t get very far. ;) Eventually, renewable energy generation will be far cheaper than fossil fuels – that fact alone will settle a lot. There are indeed investors who initiate such projects abroad and have solar/wind parks built.

There is an article in Focus on the topic... "Expropriation through the back door".... Whoever doesn’t get a loan at 75 has to sell... Whoever still gets a loan leaves debts to their children... Bravo

One can only hope for the FDP to put an end to this madness

Well ... if I inherit a house worth €250,000 and also debts of €50,000 because the heating was renovated beforehand ... I think there are much worse things. ;)

With the mentality of always just explaining why something does not work when, we really don’t get very far. ;) Eventually, the generation of renewable energies will be much cheaper than with fossil fuels – this fact alone will already settle many things. There are certainly investors who initiate such projects abroad and have solar/wind parks built.

This is not about complaining. It is about the fact that other countries have economic constraints and, because of these constraints, do or do not do certain things. Even if we in industrialized countries believe that it does not make sense. Because cheap can be calculated in different ways. And no, a German investor will certainly not build a solar park in Ghana with the goal of selling the electricity locally. The return is simply not there. What might happen are solar parks in the Maghreb for export to Europe. Although such projects have so far been announced about as often as hydrogen ;)

Back to the original topic ... could it actually be that building is so expensive because so much botched work has to be meticulously corrected? I had quite a commotion today because someone didn't understand the concept of a combined shaft and our house was connected to the rainwater sewer. It was only discovered by chance. The shaft cover was broken and when removed it completely shattered and damaged the "rainwater" pipe. It was wet and smelled like sewage, while the channel beneath was bone dry. The cover was still on. Back then, two shovel loads were saved with the big excavator, now everything has to be dug up again... I'm just glad it was discovered now and not after we had completed the landscaping.