Posted on 10/14/2016 9:50:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Renewable energy companies have hiked up the prices consumers have to bear to cover their costs, leading to accusations the country’s “energy transition” is running out of control.
Germans will be paying 8.3 percent more to subsidize the renewable energy industry in 2017, after grid operators announced that households will be paying 6.88 cents for every kilowatt hour of energy used to fund renewables.
The previous subsidy was 6.35 cents per kilowatt hour, Bild reports.
Germany has one of the most ambitious green energy policies in the world, the so-called Energiewende (energy transition), which aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 in comparison with 1990. …
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That is just the added transition fee that is piled onto the already high electric cost, which is approximately triple of what we pay here.
Just energy costs alone coupled with a corporate tax reduction would bring many German and European companies into the USA to manufacture goods here.
That is just the added transition fee that is piled onto the already high electric cost, which is approximately triple of what we pay here.
Just energy costs alone coupled with a corporate tax reduction would bring many German and European companies into the USA to manufacture goods here.
Sometimes, when I am in a benevolent mood, I like to think that it’s a clever scheme to achieve a larger degree of energy independence from Russia, Saudi Arabia et al., covered by CO2 “window dressing” to appease the Green fools.
Then again, they wouldn’t have shut down nuke power then. No, it’s just sheer stupidity (Occam’s Razor).
After Obama, green energy is he next biggest fraud.
Germany is a basket case. I lived there and worked there.
I had an office in a BRAND NEW BUILDING. Within 6 months they tore out all the light fixtures and replaced them with motion activated LEDs and removed all the wall switches. The sensors would turn on the lights directly above that were spaced out about 20 feet from each other. And soon as one went on, the one behind went off. In the office, the lights would shut off every ten minutes or so and someone would have to move around to trip the sensors back on. So to save a few pennies a year (they were already using skylights and LEDs) they must have spent millions of Euro to install all these sensors.
You should have heard the scolding I got from the cleaning lady when I would throw plastic bottles in the trash.
In the meantime, both India and China are introducing the lowest priced cars ever in record numbers. India’s Tata costs about $2000. More drivers are entering the market than ever before, and China still relies heavily on coal.
Anything Germany does will be more than cancelled out by China and India, and that’s assuming that this CO2 idea has any credibility in the first place, which is questionable.
These “green” initiatives are just profit scams by connected insiders, like Solyndra.
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Once the decision was made to dump nuke power, just about every single analyst went out and predicted yearly 7-to-10 percent jumps in electrical cost as they turn these points off and rely mostly upon wind power and solar power collectors being added to grid.
Over the last week or two...they went and ID’ed the concept of no more gas/diesel cars being sold in Germany by 2030 (14 years away). This means that battery or electrical cars ARE absolutely going to come in massive numbers. So, you have to ask yourself....just how many more solar or wind power collectors will have to be added to grid to charge up 50 million-plus cars in the future?
These people who are all pumped up on environmental concerns...never analyze the cost potential to the public. So they don’t care if they have to pay 600 Euro a month to cover the house and car needs for electricity. Those at the bottom of the middle-class won’t be able to cover that bill....so there will be some kind of welfare payment created (in my humble opinion) just to help people pay their electrical bills for their battery car.
Yup, subsidies will be the only way middle-class Germans will be able to afford the new "normal" utility bills.
If the battery “vow” established by the Germans in 2030 occurs, it also has this unique issue. Some car companies are way ahead on design for the batteries/electrical motors. Some are years behind.
If you are a car company and your program is three years behind the rest....unless you do something to quicken the pace...you could wake up in six to eight years and realize that you will be frozen out of the German market in 2030. I think a couple of brands probably won’t be seen much in Germany as they pass the 2030 period. Course, it might also generate a market in France or Austria where a German crosses the border to buy a brand-new gas-powered car and drive it back to Germany. Lots of market opportunities are involved.
Good.
They are Euroweenies and helped create this new religion.
They DESERVE IT.
WE don’t. Unless of course, we are stupid enough to run, lemming-like, away from Trump, like Mark Levin, Paul Ryan, Glens Beck and othe purist or collaborative morons.
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