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$0.34/kwh! German Electricity Prices Skyrocket To New Record Highs…”A Gigantic Redistribution Machine” By Holger Douglas (Translated/edited by P. Gosselin) For a long time, electricity prices have known only one direction: upwards! Ever faster, ever more clearly. Now the shock for many families: The Federal Government has presented official figures in an answer to an inquiry from the FDP Free Democrats parliamentary group in the Bundestag and announced the true extent of the electricity price increase. 320 euros extra annually per household In the past ten years, the price of electricity for households and industry has risen by a third.

This is even more than the various comparison websites had previously calculated. 8% hike BILD expresses how drastic it is: “The electricity price wave is sweeping over Germany! Thus the electricity price is nowhere else as high as in Germany. No way around subsidies No sensible person would install wind turbines on a large scale in Germany. Money for nothing “Anti-social” “Gigantic redistribution machine” Unsteady supply means inefficient use of backup plants. Green Madness: Germany’s Power Grid Overhaul to Cost €20 Billion More Than Expected. Germany’s plan for new power cable “autobahns” to take wind and solar energy from the north to the south of the country is set to cost billions more than envisaged. The grid upgrade will cost as much as 52 billion euros ($59 billion), 53 percent more than was budgeted for in 2014, the companies building the north-south high-voltage links said in a joint statement. Two more of the super cables are needed on top of the three already planned in order to meet the government’s new green power targets, the builders said.

The revised blueprint spells bigger electricity bills for a nation that already shares with Denmark the highest retail power costs in the European Union. Grid upgrade expenses are tacked on to consumers’ bills. “Overhauling the national grid to take a new green power target will definitely cost power users more — how much we can’t say,” Peter Franke, vice president of Germany’s energy regulator Bnetza, said in an interview in Essen. Full post. The Growing Absurdities Of The German Energiewende. In Bavaria, two gas-fired power plants of the latest generation stand around as investment ruins. Nevertheless, one of the operators wants to build a third one at the same location. This can only be understood against the background of the misguided German Energiewende. At the beginning of the year, the number of successful reports on renewable energies in Germany is increasing: The Agora Energiewende think tank writes that their 35% share of electricity production is the same as that of electricity from coal-fired power plants for the first time.

By 2030, the German government even wants to increase the share of renewables to 65%. Expensive interventions in the power grid In the Bavarian town of Irsching near Ingolstadt, electricity producer Uniper and its partners have commissioned two state-of-the-art gas-fired power plants as of 2010. No, this time it might even be a good deal. Consumers pay twice It would therefore be better to shut it down today than tomorrow. Full story (in German) Germany: 120 Billion Euros For 5% Electricity Supply! And “Huge New Green Movement” Against Wind Power.

Only 5% of demand covered The Swiss online Baseler Zeitung here writes how the country’s Association for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biotech Companies is coming out against Switzerland’s recently proposed green “energy strategy”, saying that it is “fundamentally going in the wrong direction“. The association fears it will lead to higher costs. Energy politician Christian Wasserfallen “is pleased” about the message, the Baseler Zeitung writes. The economy is slowly realizing what a threat the energy strategy poses.” On the problems of supply reliability from sun and wind power, the Baseler Zeitung reports: Just how little wind and sun really deliver was actually measured for example by Germany yesterday: The more than 120 billion euros worth of solar panels and wind turbines installed since 2000 delivered 4% and 1% respectively of German power demand.” Huge Resistance Now Mounting Against German Green Energies CO2 reductions backfire “New green movement” posing huge resistance.

New Study: German Agreed 2050 CO2 Reductions Could Cost Astronomical $2.8 TRILLION By 2050! It has long been dawning on most people that the costs of Germany’s Energiewende (transition to green energies) have been spectacularly underestimated. As Germany rushes into its foray with renewable energies, principally wind and sun, we are finding out that many of the costs involved were never taken into account. According to Die Welt: In Germany up to 2.3 trillion euros additionally have to be invested in order to reach the long-term climate protection targets of 2050. That’s the result from a current study by the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie [German Federation of Industry].”– Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt – Journalist Daniel Wetzel at the online flagship daily Die Welt reports on the results of the study commissioned by the German BDI, which found that the cost of Germany (only Germany!) Meeting its 2050 Paris Accord obligations (95% reduction) could be as high as 2.3 trillion euros ($2.8 trillion).

Chart source: Union of Concerned Scientists. The Myth of the German Renewable Energy 'Miracle' | Transmission & Distribution World. The addition of substantial levels of wind and solar resources to an electric energy grid raises significant reliability concerns at the transmission system level because these resources operate intermittently and, unlike other generating resources, they do not spin in synchronism with the grid.

An electric grid is a large complex machine that must have many needs attended to in order to function properly. Dependable rotating generation operating in synchronism across the power system enabled the evolution of the modern grids. Without due regard to the issues of intermittency, voltage control, frequency control, and grid inertia an electric grid cannot operate reliably and stably. If the first world continues to expect affordable electricity, when we want it and in whatever quantity we want, these needs must be met. In August of 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a report investigating the reliability impacts of renewable energy resources and other recent developments on the 1. Price Shock! German Consumer Electricity Rates Climb To “New Record High”, Reaching A Whopping 30.85 Cents/Kwh!

More pain for consumers. Electricity prices in Germany climb to a new high, reaching 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour. Experts warn transition to green energies may lead to shortages, higher prices. German online national daily Die Welt here reports on how electricity prices in the country have reached “a new high” and that natural gas prices are high as well. The German national news daily writes: “Electricity has never been as expensive for private households in Germany as it is this year.” “Prices have risen to a new high,” Die Welt reports, citing the latest data from German Federal Network Agency. For the first time, electricity prices for consumers reached 30 cents (euro) per kilowatt-hour, making German electric prices among the highest in the world. Citing data from the Federal Network Agency, the average price soared to 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour, which works out to be an increase of almost 3.3 percent compared to just a year earlier.