One of Germany’s biggest challenges in the fight against climate change is to keep the lights on.
As Europe’s biggest economy shuts its last nuclear reactor next year and utility RWE AG warns that coal plants may close earlier than planned, critics say green energy isn’t being added quickly enough. Germany’s ability to meet peak demand is poised to shrink rapidly over the next two years, increasing the risk of blackouts.
In a last push to save her fading reputation as ‘The Climate Chancellor’ before stepping down after next month’s election, Angela Merkel announced Europe’s strictest emissions goals. But the green power revolution she fronted for almost two decades is running out of steam just as the electrification of the economy will increase demand. […]
A supply squeeze would send power prices soaring for the many thousands of companies that make up the backbone of the economy. Wholesale rates have already jumped almost 60% this year to their highest level since 2008. That increase will feed through to the nation’s 40 million homes already paying the highest bills in the European Union, partly to fund the energy transition.
The green-hucksters at Bloomberg buried that third paragraph at the bottom of the article, and this one at the end:
In the meantime, Germany may have to rely more on neighboring markets for imports. But the closure of fossil-fuel plants in other nations too means that availability could be limited during harsh winters, just when the power is needed the most…
When you’re well on the road to energy poverty and black-outs, those responsible retire with fat pensions and a clear sociopathic conscience.
When people are hungry and freezing in the dark people like Merkel and Trudeau need to face the wall.
Yup , retire they do and with a big honking nat-gas or diesel gen set for backup.
Don’t want all that expensive ice cream melting.
So, what is happening in Germany is exactly what “deniers” said would happen with the extreme green energy mandates shutting down traditional power and also shutting down nuclear power : crazy high electricity prices and the not enough reliable power production to meet demand.
People really need to understand that politicians are only experts at getting reelected and getting rich from their positions of power. With rare exceptions, they fail dismally at everything else.
LC, what people really need to “understand” is that they don’t UNDERSTAND anything.
” People really need to understand that politicians … ”
Not much chance of that happening, LC. It is quite obvious that they don’t even understand grade 7 math and history.
VOWG and Jamie,
If the energy and vaccine scenarios play anywhere close to how I think they will then a lot of trusting people will become cynics like us.
Oh, LC, I think things will be much worse than I think they will be. I am no longer sure that I can be called a cynic, I am way beyond that.
So they’ll burn Russian natural gas … at a price. Besides, it’s much greener.
Who killed the Electric Car?
‘Green’ Energy killed the electric car. As German’s could no longer afford to fill their batteries daily.
Meanwhile … in America … all the FAKE ‘Green’ Leftists cheered the 70% increase in gasoline prices since Byedin-Heiress were installed
This is the inevitable conclusion to politicians striving to be “leaders” in green energy. Remember how we were told to emulate German policies.
The only thing that saved us (sort of) is that we’re not as efficient at policy suicide as the Germans.
Reminds one of the wise old saying: “You can always tell a pioneer by the arrows in his ass.”
What saved us thus far, is a reliable legacy of controversial (at the time of construction) hydro projects that, along with embracing nuclear power 60 years ago, making us largely “emissions” free (83% including 1% unreliables). We are, however on the path to energy poverty as the battery vehicle and war on fossils pathologies infect the Eloi masses while empowering the elected hysteria-pimping sociopaths.
The disaster of Energiewende was predicted years ago as soon as it was introduced. Always left unexplained by stupid German ecofreaks is just how a Fukushima disaster could be caused in Germany when none of its plants are in earthquake zones or on ocean bodies. It was the triumph of the German coal miners unions and the utilities that ran them.
No one should be surprised; Germany has a history of bad collective decision-making.
I hope they all FOAD, as their level of stupid is “unsustainable”.
To paraphrase PJ O’Rourke on east Berlin and communism, how bad does an economic system have to be to make paupers out of Germans?
Well, 30 years after capitalism “won” the Cold War, Germany is finding out .
Inshalla Deutschland.
It seem that with a little patience the Stasi has finally won the long game against Free German.
How do you piss with a tiefkühlwurst?
I just don’t care because these stupid bastards are like all stupid bastards everywhere: they’ll just try harder at being stupid bastards but expecting a different outcome.
And the masterbaker complaining about not having enough solar panels must be suffering from some sort of yeast infection.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/markets/russia-is-pumping-a-lot-less-natural-gas-to-europe-all-of-a-sudden-and-it-is-not-clear-why/ar-AANFQZ4?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531
Pump less, get higher prices.
D’oh.
And???
One of Germany’s biggest challenges in the fight against climate change is to keep the lights on.
Well blow me, who could see that coming. And it will be fantastic when all surface transport is switched to electric.
Now Bloomberg is no fool so must realize that the policy is daft, npot to say impossible. Is he really a fool or is the disruption of industrial society his goal. Clearly a goal he does not want himself included in.
Bloomberg is not particularly bright when it comes to STEM type issues. And his outfits (e.g., Bloomberg LP) hire a lot of young starry-eyed “journalists” who want to save the world, and are equally ignorant about STEM type things. So they shove a lot of this nonsense into their products. Plus, he knows that kind of nonsense sells pretty well to his crowd, so it’s partly a business decision on his part, partly he’s a Davos/Soros-wannabe, and partly he’s too stupid to actually analyze these issues in any detail himself, so he just goes with the flow. So bottom line, lazy and evil.
Let the Euro Eco-Tards:
” FREEZE IN THE DARK”
I could give a rats ass about abject imbeciles.