Posted on 12/17/2022 6:50:24 PM PST by House Atreides
Germany’s gas reserves are emptying at record speed: 1% per day as the current wind/solar energy lull means more gas gets burned for electricity, heating.
Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany’s natural gas reserves “are emptying at record speed” because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. This means gas turbines have had to jump in to pick up the slack in electricity production – not one the German government had hoped as it wrestles with the heightening energy crisis.
“Germany is converting gas into electricity in record quantities,” pleiteticker.de reports. “Thanks to high pressure system ‘Erika’, the current December is colder than it has been for years. […] In recent days, gas storage facilities have therefore been emptying much faster than before. From December 12 onwards, more than one percent was withdrawn from gas storage facilities in Germany every day.”
“Last week, almost one third of all electricity was generated from natural gas. These are record figures,” writes pleiteticker.de.
If the cold persists through the winter, gas reserves threaten to become extremely tight before spring arrives.
But instead of blaming the energy woes on failed government policies, federal network agency head Klaus Müller criticizes the situation on the consumers, and worries “the gas storage may not last the whole winter.”
“A national gas shortage in winter can be avoided if, firstly, the savings target of at least 20 percent continues to be achieved,” the Federal Network Agency says. Here the government’s solution clearly is that citizens should accept freezing even more when it’s bitterly cold out.
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The government is, IMHO, to blame for the gas supply situation that Germany is facing now. Of course it’s the German citizenry that does the suffering.
It’s a return to the Dark Ages.
“A national gas shortage in winter can be avoided if, firstly, the savings target of at least 20 percent continues to be achieved,”
Dropping usage 20 percent IS a shortage. They’re talking in circles.
The Citizens don’t vote for the gov’t they want?
Save Germany, burn the environ’mental’ists.
Always move closer to the equator. It's time.
And sanction Russia up the kazoo...how do you think you kept the lights on for the last 50 years...windmills??
“Always move closer to the equator. It’s time.”
Clever idea, getting ready to haul the boat to the intercostal and sail south. See you in the Keys.
That’s what you get for sanctioning Russia.
“Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. Just under half a trillion US dollars of government subsidies and counting, to make Germany’s broken energy system affordable for end users.
Germany’s half-a-trillion dollar energy bazooka may not be enough
Story by By Christoph Steitz
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. Almost half a trillion dollars, and counting, since the Ukraine war jolted it into an energy crisis nine months ago.
And it may not be enough.
“The national economy as a whole is facing a huge loss of wealth.”
The money set aside stands at up to 440 billion euros ($465 billion), according to the calculations, which provide the first combined tally of all of Germany’s drives aimed at avoiding running out of power and securing new sources of energy.
That equates to about 1.5 billion euros a day since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Or around 12% of national economic output. Or about 5,400 euros for each person in Germany.”
The idiotic, virtue-signaling Eurotrash are getting what they deserve and Germany is getting it in spades.
Record snow cover in the N. Hemisphere for this time of year. Global warming to blame for frigid temps.
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Exactly right. The only good German . . .
Always appreciate your input with these German matters.
“...the current December is colder than it has been for years.”
Darn that pesky anthropogenic global warming, it strikes again and it’s going to be deadly.
President Trump warned the Germans and they laughed at him. Putin warned them and the Germans (EU) placed restrictive sanctions on Russia. How dumb can they be???
They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
No problemo. Back to coal . . . the “necessary ‘evil’” . . .
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