Germany’s
Energiewende
( "green energies" )
is driving up
electricity prices.
Germany is committed
to shutting down their
nuclear power plants
by 2022.
According
to the
Augsburger
Allgemeine,
the price
of electricity
rose by 35%
in the decade
from 2009 to 2019,
to $0.34/kwh
( about $0.17/kwh
here in SE Michigan,
including MI sales tax ).
For a typical
household,
with 4,000 kWh
use per year,
that means
+320 euros
in additional
costs for
electricity
alone.
BILD reports:
“The electricity
price wave
is sweeping
over Germany!"
"Now the energy giants
Innogy, RheinEnergy
and Vattenfall are also
raising prices
by eight percent”.
Millions
of households
are affected.
Germans are paying
for the transition
to green energies.
Every electricity
consumer pays
for the phase in
of very expensive
“renewable energies”
... and for
the destruction of
the previously reliable
and inexpensive
power supply.
No sensible person
would install wind turbines
on a large scale in Germany.
The yield of electricity
is simply too low
and too unreliable.
The German government
reported that wind turbine
operators alone received
a total of 635 million euros
in compensation in 2018
because they were unable
to feed their electricity
into the grid at times
it was not needed.
FDP politician
Sandra Weeser
sees the
attractiveness
of Germany as
a business
location
at risk: “
"With our
high wage
cost level,
we cannot
keep increasing
the production costs
of electricity
if we want to
keep industry
in the country."
(1)
More solar
photovoltaic systems
for low hours of use ?
(2)
More wind turbines
for intermittent power ?
(3)
Continued
CO2 emissions
from conventional
power plants that
have to supply
electricity at night,
when the sky
is cloudy, and when
the wind is slow or still.
Making the
fossil fuel plants
less efficient
than ever before:
-- The frequent
start-ups and
shut-downs
of the standby
fossil fueled
power plants
significantly
increases their
CO2 emissions
per unit of
power produced,
and wears out
turbines faster
than steady use.