> setting aside overall strategy for base load and stuff
Energy got increasingly expensive in Germany the further the Energiewende agenda advanced, to the point that we’re now rapidly deindustrialising.
Turns out base load kinda matters.
> setting aside overall strategy for base load and stuff
Energy got increasingly expensive in Germany the further the Energiewende agenda advanced, to the point that we’re now rapidly deindustrialising.
Turns out base load kinda matters.
Where are you getting your numbers? The numbers I’ve seen indicate that non-household electricity prices in Germany have been stable for decades - fluctuating around the 35€/MWh mark until the crisis in 2021 - which affected all European countries - and is currently back at roughly that level. Taking into account of inflation, the wholesale cost of electricity in Germany has fallen slightly over the last 2 decades in real terms.
> to the point that we’re now rapidly deindustrialising
That's not exclusively due to the price of energy, though it is a factor, there are other factors (such as the price of wages) that are much larger factors.
The biggest simply being that China is outcompeting Germany on its own strengths through a combination of a lack of environmental regulations, cheap labor and state subsidies at a level that the EU would not tolerate.
Nothing to do with being reliant on Russian oil at all? All the fault of renewables?
Yes its a doubly idiotic fuckup. Unfortunately we we have incredibly dumb leadership, deciding to retire our last nuclear reactors even though our last hope, cheap Russian energy, has halted.