Electricity is one of those things that is only fully appreciated when a hopeful user is deprived of it. Across Europe, the cultlike fixation on wind and solar has provided precisely the environment in which households and businesses are coming to sense just how important having power as and when they need it, really is.
Germany set the tone by squandering billions of euros on subsidies to wind and solar, trashing their forests and rural heartland, as well as their hitherto reliable and affordable power supply. What could possibly go wrong?
Power prices are rocketing into the stratosphere and, even before winter drives up demand, are being deprived of energy in a way that was unthinkable barely a decade ago. But such is life when you attempt to run on sunshine and breezes.
Here are a couple of reports on the inevitable renewable energy transition from the frontline.
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