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[โ€“] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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...

[โ€“] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

Every German energy problem is entirely down to political self owns