Yeah. A series of fucktarted decisions caused Germany to fuck themselves:
Germany turned off all their nuclear plants (why?!)
Germany turned off all their coal plants (good)
Germany vastly increased natural gas imports and tied themselves at the hip to Russia (they were publicly told this was a bad idea. Germany laughed it off)
Germany ramped up solar/wind production (good)
Germany did not invest in grid-scale storage to go with that solar/wind (Just going whole-hog on trusting Russia)
Russia invaded Ukraine and held natural gas exports to Germany’s throat (boy, who would have guessed Russia would fuck over Germany?!)
Germany had to emergency expand their LNG imports amid record-high prices and with hastily-built LNG terminals (LNG is also the most expensive way to import natural gas)
Germany had to online coal plants due to shortages (boy, those nuclear plants would have been damn helpful!)
Germany now has some of the highest priced electricity anywhere
They really, really, really should have kept those nuclear plants like France…
Going away from nuclear without a good plan b to replace the power was stupid.
We basically replaced nuclear power with wind and solar, but the new power demand that was coming since the turning off of the nuclear plants, was achieved by building gas turbines. So fossil fuels again.
And now our energy minister is a lobbyist from the gas energy sector…
Yeah. A series of fucktarted decisions caused Germany to fuck themselves:
They really, really, really should have kept those nuclear plants like France…
Yeah Germany fucked it really hard.
Going away from nuclear without a good plan b to replace the power was stupid.
We basically replaced nuclear power with wind and solar, but the new power demand that was coming since the turning off of the nuclear plants, was achieved by building gas turbines. So fossil fuels again.
And now our energy minister is a lobbyist from the gas energy sector…
Every German energy problem is entirely down to political self owns