Google translated from Basler;
German utility company Tennet TSO spent almost a billion euros last year on emergency interventions to stabilize the grid. That’s what the company announced earlier this week. The costs were thus about half higher than in 2016 (660 million euros) and around forty percent higher than in 2015 (710 million). Tennet is responsible for the electricity supply in an area that extends from Schleswig-Holstein in the north to southern Bavaria and accounts for around forty percent of Germany’s total area. In particular, Tennet is responsible for important north-south routes.
The reason for the increase in emergency interventions is the increasing number of solar and wind turbines in Germany. The share of renewable energy increased from 29 to 33 percent of the electricity supply last year. Wind and solar power are irregular and often unpredictable. This makes the network increasingly unstable.
Original German language source here.
Ontario is trying to catch up to Germany as fast as possible. Via Instapundit FALLEN ANGELS
https://pjmedia.com/trending/canadas-carbon-taxes-boondoggles-add-pain-record-cold-winter/
The only desire of government, is more power and control. Unreliable energy does that. So expect more. When it is no longer possible to keep the lights on, expect more regulations to flow out of the manufactured crisis. Power. Control.
“Wind and solar power are irregular and often unpredictable.”
No bloody kidding.
They obviously talked to some ‘experts’.
Maybe a third grader could help them out sometime.
I know there are costs with stabilising the grid due to to incremental supply. But a billion euros? Whoa.
I cannot WAIT till “green” Germany reaches 100% “Renewable” energy … as is the country’s stated goal. Shoot … they’re ONLY at 33% … time to GIVE the Greens EXACTLY what they want. And BTW … I sincerely HOPE that Macron in France is smart-enough to PROFITEER by selling their excess Nuclear Power to the Germans
You have hit the nail on the head.!!
It has been noted that the Executive Secretary of the IPCC at the UN, a Christina Figueres has stated that the GOAL of “Climate Change” has little to do with the environment, rather it is an effort to “change the economic model the planet has used for the past 150 years”
IE: Destroy Capitalism (marxism to replace it.??)
The plan as it looks to me is one to create ENERGY POVERTY by replacing all sources of energy to Electricity …. High Cost electricity using renewables as the engine of change. Once done..Ontario, Germany, Australia & many other locales, Govt can then set the price of said electricity by guaranteeing the developers a high FIXED price (FIT).
This price remains in effect regardless of whether the power produced is needed or not. If not, it’s sold for pennies on the dollar. The Difference made up by rate payers. On top of this you will see (here in Ab & elsewhere for sure), the installation of SMART meters (worth a look – Ontario- at how these bastard units work).
ALL this to impoverish the current population.
ALL this to discourage Investment
ALL this to kill growth
ALL this to discourage child bearing
ALL this to destroy jobs and personal wealth
ALL this to mandate “thou shalt be dependant upon GOVERNMENT”
ALL this to destroy Capitalism….and at the same time, replacing our Western populations with stone age savages.
This is a WAR people….and it ain’t going very well for our side. Trump nothwithstanding…He has got it right.
Ah, but we deniers shall be exiled to a climate-denier penal colony in the Antarctic.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2018/01/green-from-instinct-to-jackboots/
The Kerguelen islands are horridly cold and windy specks near the Antarctic, populated by a few score of French scientists and several thousand sheep. But to a leading British green group, Forum for the Future, it has enormous potential as an internationally-run penal colony for global warming sceptics.
Ah, but we deniers shall be exiled to a climate-denier penal colony in the Antarctic.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2018/01/green-from-instinct-to-jackboots/
The Kerguelen islands are horridly cold and windy specks near the Antarctic, populated by a few score of French scientists and several thousand sheep. But to a leading British green group, Forum for the Future, it has enormous potential as an internationally-run penal colony for global warming sceptics.
Study financed by Hewlett Packard
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/09/hewlett-packard-report-includes-planned-penal-colonies-for-climate-skeptics/
The Gulag Archipelago is an instruction manual for the authoritarian eco-left.
all I know is anybody shuts my ‘wynnedfarm’ smart meter off, I fetch a pair of booster cables, pry the thing off the side of my house and join the contacts up again.
Im not kidding. did you know in a pinch you can ‘push’ voltage INTO an outlet and by switching breakers on and off, deliver said power to other outlets and appliances in the house?
Yes you can but make sure you switch off your main disconnect. You do not want to backfeed into the grid.