Germans scale back on wind energy
The German government loves to talk about the importance of green energies, but when it comes to their expansion, it is in fact doing the opposite: Old wind turbines are being removed without being replaced by new generation turbines.
Perhaps it’s beginning dawn on the German government that especially wind and solar energy just aren’t working out, and so they have massively scaled back subsidies with the aim of scaling them back. […]
The NDR [German public television] reports that in the coming years, 16 GW of wind power will be removed from the subsidy system. Almost two-thirds of this may not be replaced by new, more powerful ones.
As far as Altenstedt goes, where the three featured turbines are being dismantled, the NDR reports: “No more wind turbines may be built in Altenstedt, there are no more planning permits. The energy transition is now history here.
The remaining infrastructure: transmission lines, access roads, transformers etc. are available and are now no longer being used. In Altenstedt they will probably become the first relics of a past idea that went sour.
h/t PaulHarveyPg2
““The consumer has paid around 30 billion euros a year in feed-in tariffs. […] a lot of money for an instrument that fails to deliver”.”
the whole point of the FIT is to insure that inefficient, unreliable generation has a seat at the table for the cronies of the government in power.
BREAKING
I want a new country.
Fifty cops raided Rebel News house they were renting to cover Montreal demonstrations.
Arrested David Menzies.
“The NDR [German public television] reports that in the coming years, 16 GW of wind power will be removed from the subsidy system. Almost two-thirds of this may not be replaced by new, more powerful ones.”
Perhaps not. Germany’s real alternative is not what’s already failed but this: Nordstream 2. It’s a way to bypass Poland and Ukraine.
Germany has already embraced Nordstream 2 in spite of the resistance from the Americans. The Germans must and will break ranks with them for their own good.
They will inevitably reverse their stance on nuclear as well, although that could take a bit longer.
Reversing on nuclear won’t happen by my guess as long as Merkel and the CDU are in office. And I don’t believe it will happen as long as the Green Party are any kind of deciding force in the Bundestag. That said, it will not surprise me if the CDU hemorrhages voters to the AfD. I suspect Merkel and her gang of phonies have pretty much worn out their welcome with German conservatives (if there are any).
But if you have better information, please let us know. Europe is going to remain dysfunctional as long as its largest country remains as psychotic as it is.
It had to come to this one way or another. Either they come to their senses and voluntarily back off from the wind and solar power subsidy fiasco, or the hard hand of economic reality imposes it on them. Better the former for their sake.
Finally, some countries are beginning to learn that windmills and solar panels are unreliable and hard to recycle.
All of this was tried … and REJECTED … in the 1970’s. Oh! Oh! Oh! … they say: “New Technology” has made Solar and Wind … wayyyy better than the 1970’s. Yeah … shut up Boomers! Get out of the way … of our New! Green! Clean! Renewable! Future. We’re all high tech and whatnot now. Don’t give us that ol’ … doesn’t change the Physics excuse” … cause we BELIEVE in magical Free! Cheap! Energy. And we’re gonna make you Pay Pay Pay through your ass for it!
If this hadn’t been done and dusted long ago … I could almost understand the enthusiasm. But this “Cheap, Green, clean, renewable” Energy is like Socialism … “it just hasn’t been done right yet”. Right? That’s what these “green” Communists think. Do you need any more evidence that this whole movement toward unilateral energy dismemberment of the West is just another Communist manifesto