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Germany's renewable industry also was never profitable, if you look at the whole country. It was always propped up by huge subsidies, and when those subsidies where scaled back (as planned and announced beforehand), the whole rent-seeking industry folded and business went to China.

It is hard to argue about energy cost in Germany, because all energy sources are a mixture of privately financed and public/state-subsidized, but always in different, complicated and frankly weird ways. Things are easier to see in countries where either practically everything is done by the state (e.g. France) or everything is more free-market (e.g. the US).