German high energy prices are not result of abandoning expensive short term nuclear refurbishments. It is pure colonial extortion by US to force them into war on Russia, and buy US LNG. Global coal prices have risen as well as a result of EU LNG dependence. Any renewables mitigate those establishment energy costs. The one bad energy policy has is not letting industry participate in wholesale electricity markets. They are forced to use fixed rates.
Germany could have closed their coal plants decades ago and decided not to. Now it has decided to be a leech on France’s and Sweden’s nuclear. Yes nuclear is expensive, so I hope you won’t be surprised when France and Sweden finally put their foot down and let Germany try to run their grid on wind, or pay a premium on baseload.
And yes it sucks that the USA stirred up shit in Ukraine, throwing Europe and especially Germany under the bus. Luckily Iran is taking care of that.
German high energy prices are not result of abandoning expensive short term nuclear refurbishments. It is pure colonial extortion by US to force them into war on Russia, and buy US LNG. Global coal prices have risen as well as a result of EU LNG dependence. Any renewables mitigate those establishment energy costs. The one bad energy policy has is not letting industry participate in wholesale electricity markets. They are forced to use fixed rates.
Germany could have closed their coal plants decades ago and decided not to. Now it has decided to be a leech on France’s and Sweden’s nuclear. Yes nuclear is expensive, so I hope you won’t be surprised when France and Sweden finally put their foot down and let Germany try to run their grid on wind, or pay a premium on baseload.
And yes it sucks that the USA stirred up shit in Ukraine, throwing Europe and especially Germany under the bus. Luckily Iran is taking care of that.