Germans are paying the price for their Green-Left government’s maniacal fixation on heavily subsidised and hopelessly intermittent wind and solar. Already suffering Europe’s highest power prices, with prices still on the ascendant, German bureaucrats have been reduced to rationing energy of all descriptions at the micro level, in a way not seen since its postwar recovery. As winter approaches, Germans are being offered the opportunity to bunch up in exhibition halls when temperatures plummet, so they can collectively stay warm in a commonly heated space.
The writing was on the wall, even before Vlad Putin stormed Ukraine and began holding Europe to ransom with threats (feigned and ultimately realised) to slash Russian gas supplies to Europe.
2021 was the year when the inherent unreliability of wind and solar revealed how everything depends upon reliable and affordable power supplies. Europe’s months-long wind drought in the last half of 2021 made the…
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