As Germany struggles in energy crisis, more turn to solar to help power homes

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Karolina Attspodina, a Ukrainian-born tech entrepreneur who launched the startup We Do Solar in Berlin, with one of her company’s solar panels. Attspodina’s work is part of nationwide push to get Germans to use less energy and lessen dependence on Russian oil. Marlena Waldthausen for NPR

Marlena Waldthausen for NPR

There is no major industrialized country in the world more dependent on Russian energy than Germany.

Natural gas, mostly from Russia, is used to power the country’s manufacturing sector, and it heats nearly half

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