Residential solar panels in Germany.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ Sideka Solartechnik
The German energy crunch looms in the next few years, not unlike some other over-committed renewables enthusiasts, for example Britain. European countries don’t seem to see or admit the potential problem of relying on each other for imports. Somebody has to have an excess of power for that to work, but as more countries favour renewables over power stations the availability of on-demand electricity must inevitably decline.
H/T The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany, a poster child for renewable energy, is renouncing nuclear and coal.
The problem is, say many power producers and grid operators, it may struggle to keep the lights on.
The country, the biggest electricity market in the European Union, is abandoning nuclear power by 2022 due to safety concerns compounded by the Fukushima disaster and phasing out coal plants over the next…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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