Germany’s Misguided Energy Program
Image: Die Welt
Germany’s vision of a clean, environmentally friendly energy system, all to be discreetly nestled in an idyllic landscape, is in reality morphing into an environmental dystopia of catastrophic proportions, reports Pierre Gosselin. (1)
Germany has been held up as an example to the world for their ‘energy transition,’ but as it turns out, their experience has created chaos for producers and consumers, while threatening the German economy.
A recent German Government report is so explosive that the government auditors see the Energiewende as a ‘danger‘ for all of Germany. The scathing report on renewable energy makes readers aware that its Energiewende- the mandated transition to renewable energy- was and continues to be expensive, making the country’s residential electricity prices the highest in Europe and costing the country billions in future network costs, as well as exposing the country to energy supply shortfalls that puts it at a risk for blackouts. (2)
German electricity prices are among the highest in the world and there is still no end in sight for the cost spiral. One study found that another whopping 525 billion euros will be needed by 2025 to upgrade the power grid. (3) According to the draft audit report, Germany’s energy transition has proved too costly and has significantly underestimated the risks to reliable supply.
After Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel used the tsunami-related failure to retire the country’s nuclear plants by 2022 and forced the sector to radically restructure in favor of renewable energy, particularly wind and solar power. (4)
A question-why would Germany shut down nuclear generators after Fukushima? The country isn’t on any fault line nor is it subject to tsunamis and their reactors are of a more modern design than the Japanese.
Over 50 percent of residential electricity bills in Germany are made up of taxes and fees, most of which support the transition away from coal, natural gas, and nuclear power through subsidies and mandates, which makes Germany’s electricity 43 percent more expensive than the average across the 27-nation European Union, which is expensive generally. (2)
These are the same kind of energy solutions now being pursued by Biden, California, New York, New Jersey, and others that have proven to be disasters on every level.
In 2017 German families and businesses were pummeled by 172,000 localized blackouts.
In 2019, some 350,000 German families had their electricity cut out because they couldn’t pay their power bills. (5)
President Biden is going at rapid speed to get an infrastructure bill passed that will pursue his net zero strategy for electricity generation. But there have been a number of incidents in Germany, California and Texas that are warning against such a pursuit.
Biden’s net zero goal will result in higher electricity prices, instability to the grid and higher taxes to pay for the tax incentives renewable energy is demanding despite tens of billions of lavish subsidies and mandates already.
Biden needs to pay attention to the needs of Americans and their energy costs for energy poverty is not limited to third world countries. Germany and other parts of Europe are beginning to discover this. (2)
References
- P. Gosselin, “Germany’s enviro-dystopia: wind parks devastating ruralregions at catastrophic proportions,” notrickszone.com, December 1,2020
- “Germany energy taxes to go green with Energiewende lead it to gobust,” naturalgasnow.org, April 15, 2001
- P. Gosselin, “Explosive German Government Audit Report ‘Energiewendie’ has become a danger for all of Germany,”co2coalition.org, March 31,2021
- Markus Wacket, “Germany’s energy drive criticized over expense, risks,” reuters.com, March 30, 2021
- Paul Driessen, “How exactly do they plan to replace fossil fuels?”, wattsupwiththat.com, March 16, 2020
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Alan
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When is Merkel expecting a tsunami to hit Germany? A tsunami of ideocracy certainly.
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Boris Badenov
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Merkel is a commie and commies aren’t know for their brilliance just their greed. Kommieforniastan is right on their heels for stupidity and a very unstable power supply. We may have earthquakes but you can build small nukes that will easily withstand them. Even the nukes we had withstood the large quakes we did have.
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Chris
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The dem party will adopt any bad idea that harms the US.
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Protestant
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What’s shocking is that photo of giant wind turbines thumping directly over the houses of German citizens. It’s incredible that with all their health & safety regulations, the German government has allowed this lethal assault on the taxpayers, attacking them in their own homes with this dangerous, incessant thumping percussion of turbines directly over their heads.
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