It is unclear what Germany’s most complicated election result in decades will mean for the energy transition, but there is a chance that a possible centrist-liberal-Green government coalition will provide new momentum to the push for subsidy-free renewable power in Europe's largest economy.

The renewable energy sector first needs to brace itself for months of uncertainty during difficult coalition talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), her Bavarian allies from the Christian Social Union (CSU), the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the Greens

The only other possible link-up, a continuation of the “Grand Coalition” between the CDU/CSU and the Social Democrats, has been categorically ruled out by the SPD after it suffered a bitter loss on Sunday, gaining a...