The German government has set an ambitious target to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to 40 % of 1990 levels by 2020 . The German government has set an ambitious target to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to 40% of 1990 levels by 2020. However , experts warn that the unrelenting focus on renewables will be challenged by the intermittent nature of renewable power generation , especially wind and solar . This has put the government"s strategy under question and resulted in a return to peaking power generation .
The German government has set an ambitious target to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to 40 % of 1990 levels by 2020 . However , experts warn that the unrelenting focus on renewables will be challenged by the intermittent nature of renewable power generation , especially wind and solar . This has put the government"s strategy under question and resulted in a return to peaking power generation .