“The wheels are falling off of Germany’s green energy bandwagon.”
While Germans gleefully embraced the “Nuclear Power? No Thanks!” movement and global greens pointed to Germany as the future of the Green Economy, the sheen is starting to come off the German revolution. The last few months have been a slaughter for the German solar energy. Amid talk of a trade war with China over cheap imported solar panels, the giant German engineering firm Siemens shuttered its solar division after hemorrhaging more than a billion dollars in just two years.
Now Forbes reports that the rest of the German solar industry isn’t following far behind: two of the country’s biggest solar firms, Conenergy and Gehrlicher Solar, both filed for insolvency last week. Another engineering titan, Bosch, has also decided to get out of the solar market.
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German consumers haven’t been happy with their skyrocketing energy rates, while German industries have struggled to remain competitive while paying much more for electricity than overseas competition. As green jobs have been disappearing in Germany–employment in the solar sector fell to 87,000 in 2012 from 110,900 a year earlier–German leaders have slashed many of its flagship green programs.
Let them burn wood.
The wheels are off Ontario’s green energy bandwagon too, the only people who know are those paying their monthly bills. The McGuinty regime turned over to Wynne are one and the same and the stupidity goes on to continued financial disaster.
Solar firm Conenergy?
Not good company naming skills.
Actually, the statement should be “let them burn books.” They have historical experience with this. Or a secondary source of BTUs would be “Let them burn Juden.” Historical experience, ya know. And yes, I realise that statement is distasteful. But, a lot of Canadians and Americans gave their lives to bring that distastefulness to an end.
So when are they going to remove the
from their Net pages???
Seniors in England are already burning books to stay alive in winter.
Cheaper to pay a library fine than buy fuel.
Somewhere, David Suzuki is smiling.
Meanwhile in Ontario , 2000mw worth of turbines are producing a stellar 7 mw when demand is expected to reach 24,168 mw.
For a race known for their efficiency, the Germans sure did this ass-backwards.
It’s one thing to “invest” in “green” energy; it’s another to do so with both hands tied behind their backs.
Their short-sighted, knee-jerk decision to move away from nuclear energy was the absolutely worst thing they could have done if they wanted to transition to solar or wind.
Once a nuclear power plant is built and operable, there’s absolutely no form of energy cheaper.
The rate-payers for nuclear could have subsidized their so-called renewable energy program.
Let die basterds freeze in die dark.
German industries have struggled to remain competitive while paying much more for electricity than overseas competition.
During World War 2 Germany built the best tanks, best rockets, best and only jets, airplanes,
but we still kicked their ass.
Why?
During the time it took to build 3 German Tiger tanks,
America could produce 50 tanks.
During the time it took to build 4 German aircraft,
America could produce 20.
Germany builds the best Solar Panels,
but China builds millions of them and cheaper.
another ass kicking in progress..
Some of the Brits seem to have discovered that they don’t need them stinkin’ giant fans, either. At least they won’t have to fire-up a power plant to run on hot standby for when the wind isn’t just right.
Same old story, the masses are let to believe that a small group of smarter than everyone else people can run there country, there economy, there lives much better than the masses themselves.
I’m wondering when the masses get smart enough to validate the arguments of the smarter than everyone else crowed rather than just act on them.
Well, if we just spend more money on educating our children, and set some uniform standards for that education…
Oh! …Nevermind.
/sarc
Germany builds the best Solar Panels,
but China builds millions of them and cheaper.
PV solar is as dirty or perhaps even dirtier than the oil sands. It’s not economically feasible to produce PV solar in North America or Europe. The labor costs are prohibitively expensive and environmental regulations which keep our air, water and land from being heavily polluted don’t exist in Asia, so nearly all of the PV production is over there where they can pollute and keep their production costs low. The electricity to run their PV solar factories comes from dirty coal and the factories dump pollution into the environment. The same goes for their wind turbines.
The U.S. produces 20.2% of the world’s GHG emissions, and 27% of that comes from toxic polluting coal-fired electricity. China produces ~24% of the world’s GHG emissions, and about 40% of that comes from toxic polluting coal-fired electricity. Only half of China’s coal burning is for electricity, and toxic pollution controls in China are practically non-existent.
But hey, it’s not a problem as long as they only pollute the ‘peeing end’ of the pool. Right?