Germans have worked out that relying on the weather for your power has one major problem: “The Weather”. They’ve even coined a term for gloomy, windless weather – ‘dunkelflaute’ – periods of days or weeks when their more than 30,000 wind turbines and millions of solar panels produce next to nothing or nothing at all.
Having foolishly trashed their (once enviable) nuclear power generation capacity, the Germans have been forced to re-embrace coal-fired power, like their lives depend upon it – notwithstanding howls of outrage from their lunatic green fringe.
German power prices are the highest in Europe and large-scale power rationing is now routine.
The result for the German economy is, of course, catastrophic, as Claire Lehmann outline below.
Why Germany’s energy blunders offer us a stark economic warning
The Australian
Claire Lehmann
21 July 2023
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