Germany’s home to Europe’s two biggest domestic energy tech startups: Berlin-based Enpal and Hamburg-based 1Komma5. They’re both unicorns, they’ve both raised billions and they both want to cover homes across Germany in solar panels.
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Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.