"Green" policies are destroying this country
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German government will push for a European federation
The Social Democrats, Greens and the liberal FDP announced that a ‘traffic light’ coalition between the three parties would push for the development of a fully-fledged European federation.
According to the coalition agreement presented on Wednesday, the coalition wants to use the ongoing Conference on the Future of Europe as a starting point to reform the EU.
The conference should lead to a constitutional process and ultimately to the “development of a federal European state,” the document reads.
“A sovereign Europe is the key for our foreign policy,” said Olaf Scholz, who will likely be inaugurated as chancellor in the second week of December.
“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity
Bardland writes:
In just over a month, Germany will close 3 of its newest and best nuclear power plants and more than 4050 MW of electricity will disappear from northern Europe’s power grid. 4050 MW is equivalent to the average electricity consumption of all of Denmark.
It will put supply security further under pressure and them choosing to do so in the middle of winter is pretty crazy.
Not only will the 4050 MW of shut off nuclear power lead to more CO2 emissions, but it will cause much more pollution from the burning of biomass and fossil fuels. Next winter, Germany will close the last 3 nuclear power plants, also 4000 MW.
Anyone who has followed the energy and climate political debate, even superficially, over the last 10-20 years can see that Germany, Denmark and other ‘green crazy countries’ are doing it vigorously AGAINST what logic and science dictates.
We see a slow disaster playing out with The Greens in the lead role as the crazy villain, hell-bent in their eagerness to wipe out life and prosperity.
(PS. Buy warm clothes, food, water and candles, for the coming winter).”
There is a new coalition government in Germany in addition the decisions made years ago in the Merkel era to shut nuclear plants are coming to fruition. Germany currently gets 35% of its power from coal and nuclear, the latter already due to be phased out next year. Without this reliable generation, Germany will be heavily reliant on imported electricity. Ireland is stringing a cable to France to tap into French nuclear power, Irish authorities are also intent on eliminating thermal power plants by 2030 (Moneypoint is scheduled for 2025). Anyone can see that there will be situations in future where there will be no power availble at any price and demand management (i.e. load shedding) will be the reality and very likely in weather conditions similar to what happened in Texas.
Here you see the random nature of wind power. Although it has contributed on average 23% of total electricity in November 2021, equivalent to 13 GW, there have been several days when it has been running at below 4GW. Given that Germany has 62 GW nameplate wind power capacity, this underlines the point it does not matter how many turbines you have when the wind does not blow or the sun shine you have nothing or as the Germans say Dunkelflaute.
In Ireland and elsewhere we are following the same directives from Germany via the EU. Given the increased electrification proposed, Germany will at least 100 GW of reliable capacity. Gas, biomass and hydro together only provide 43 GW, less than half of that required. That means they will need Nord Stream 2 and a lot of new gas plants will have to be built.
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France also has maintenance on its nuclear plants and even recently had to import power (6GW) from Germany, they are planning small modular nuclear reactors while Germany is shutting down their reliable sources.
In case the lunatics think they are getting random wind "energy for free": Wind power risks becoming too cheap, says top turbine maker
Do note that wind turbine and solar operators are subsidised and don't have to pay the overhead costs to provide backup electricity when their random generation shortfalls,yet they can receive curtailment payments when they produce too much. Eirgrid will require more batteries to maintain frequency control and system stability, these are not cheap. We pay that.
The warnings are there for those who wish to hear them, our vulnerability to any weather increases with every net zero policy decision. Is there any risk analysis carried out?
Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.
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RealPolitik may prevail and they change their mind now that Merkel is gone, however, you can't just mothball nuclear plants and bring them out of storage. Once closed they are decommissioned, the supply contracts are ended and the expertise to operate them drifts away, it takes a few years to get them back online.
Germany Has a Math Problem, and It’s about to Get Worse
And in addition to relying on its neighbors for nuclear energy, it turns out it is relying on Russia for gas as predicted. Overall, Germany has a 68 percent energy import dependency, with 94 percent of its gas needs met by imports. The July agreement by Chancellor Merkel and President Biden to allow the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany to be completed is not only having an impact on transatlantic relations now, but also it could affect the balance of power within Europe in the future.
The Greens argue that the Nord Stream 2 deal is not only bad for the environment, but also for Europe’s security and economy. Greens leader Annalena Baerbock, who is hoping to win the chancellorship next month, has maintained a hard line on stopping Russia’s pipeline both due to the environmental impacts and geopolitical ramifications for Europe.
You raise an interesting point who is setting energy policy? In Britain namely Scotland this was called out years ago. The landowners in Scotland where the turbines are located are based around London and politically connected.
Privatisation of the energy companies led to regulation and political interference. Once run by engineers, energy policy is now dictated by arts graduates. The three figures are Alex Salmond, former leader of the SNP, Baroness Worthington who was the lead author on the UK 2008 climate change act and member of Friends of The Earth and Lord Deben (John Gummer), chairman of the Climate Change Committee that informs energy policy.
Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.
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