HOW ARE RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES BEING SABOTAGED?

When the International Energy Agency (IEA) publishes its studies on energy security and economic development, governments often take them at face value. But for a number of years now, the IEA has been systematically underestimating the growth of renewable energy and thus the potential of climate-neutral power plants. For example, the IEA has projected global photovoltaic production to be 200 gigawatts in 2030, but, in fact, the figure for 2017 was already considerably higher. Nevertheless, governments continue to base their political decisions on these faulty estimates, and the large energy producers take advantage of it: Because as long as the output coming from sources of alternative energy appears to be lagging behind, there will be very little political pressure on the energy companies to clean up their act.