Hopefully this won't lead to widespread misery this winter, but it almost certainly will. At least the colossal failure of clueless central planners was well-intentioned.
What convenient timing...
“Wars, and rumors of war.”
Don’t worry, Macron got this! /scar
In the 50s, the NewkYouLeer promise was unmetered electricity.
Sounded so good.
The EU is nothing but One Big Incompetent Government
The KGB and its successor foreign intelligence agency SVR funded and funds environmental wacko groups and other leftists who hate energy independence. Those efforts are now bearing fruit for Russia.
Interesting, if accurate. Just recently there was an article about the expansion of nuclear energy (electricity) plants. France plans to build many more.
Think of where we would be if all the global warming funds had been spent on REAL PROBLEMS.
France, which is the size of Texas, has 56 nuclear reactors. There are only 92 nuclear reactors in the entire U.S. This illustrates how far the U.S. is behind in the nuclear power industry.
Energy is the road to wealth.
Nations that purposely (for whatever reason) decide to experiment with their energy needs deserve what they get (and that includes the US).
Man made climate change is a scam. National leaders around the world are making their citizens suffer so a few elites can pocket more money.
To address it, they need to heed the advise of our genius Buttigieg and all get electric cars!
Oh sorry!
The Eurolemmings are sending themselves over a cliff.
I live ten miles from the Moscow, Ohio power plant. The plant was totally built as a nuclear plant but converted to coal fired for its opening in 1990. This was due to over regulation of nuclear. Thank goodness, we had the alternative. Last week the plant shut down permanently due to over regulation of coal. The nearest windmills I know of are the other side of Indianapolis. I hope they have cheap excess energy for me.
Not discussed in the article is the reason why they need to "revitalize" their nuclear industry. The Macron government, until the current energy crisis, was actively reducing France's nuclear contribution. In part, this was to appease the EU's position to replace nuclear power with "green" energy like solar and wind. Macron was actively shutting down older plants but not replacing them with new nuclear plants. Adding more pressure to France's nuclear woes, is that their neighbors rely on exported power from France, putting additional pressure on France's nuclear power system. Now that Russia has cut off Europe from cheap natural gas France is still in the best position to reboot nuclear power, but it will take time to get the new plants online.
I suspect that France was quietly ok with their nukes slowly running out their lives and not trying to replace them, as ‘renewables’ were going to save the day. They wanted the carve-out on converting to ‘renewables’ just so they didn’t have to shutdown otherwise healthy reactors, as Germany did at a wholesale level.
Pretty much all of Europe is infected that badly, so hard to believe that France was actually an exception.
“a flurry of unexpected issues.”
Or, if you’re French, a fleury of unexpected issues.
Why should we care about a disaster in a moslem country?