[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Firebot

France's price of electricity is half of Germany



https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...h=5a1399021bd9



France despite wanting to reduce the nuclear share %, has seen the light and accelerated the building of nuclear reactors to fight climate change and escalating gas prices as it sees nuclear as the only viable solution to climate change.



https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...rs-2021-11-09/



Meanwhile Germany who is the ideological environmentalist darling with half of its power coming from renewables while chosing to get rid of nuclear,

is bringing in coal and gas at a huge premium because it had a 'low wind' fall. Turns out relying so much on unreliable energy sources is a bad idea.



https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ut-2021-09-28/



Oops



https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielco...h=6715877b2af3



And when wind is good? Germany can't use it due to lack of proper grid infrastructure and is forced to export it, and is paying other countries to close down their renewables to prevent a total system collapse. It makes for great headlines about how great Germany is doing with renewables if it exports, but the reality is much more somber.



https://www.greentechmedia.com/artic...-across-europe

Again, for the third time. How does Germany shuttering nuclear plants affect the electricity price in Zimbabwe?


It's almost as if you didn't read the post.

This is a global supply/demand imbalance caused by global commodity issues. Yes Germany closing nuclear plants was unwise. But that's not why the whole freaking world's energy prices are high. I don't know how else to explain this