Posted on 07/14/2025 12:50:10 PM PDT by Tell It Right
What person using logic and science did not see this coming?
But, EVs there will still be able to charge up. Right???
“Green Dogma Forces the Dutch To Ration Electricity”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/green-dogma-forces-the-dutch-to-ration-electricity/
More than 10,000 Dutch businesses—as well as hospitals, fire stations, and thousands of new houses—are waiting for electricity network connections, and in some cases will have to continue waiting until the mid-2030s.
The country has taken a rapid turn to ‘renewable’ energy in recent years, with millions of homes now having solar panels on their roofs, while shifting away from more reliable sources, especially gas. This zealous drive towards net zero is proving incompatible with rapid electrification increases, and has forced network operators to ration power.
Energy consultant Zsuzsanna Pató told the Financial Times that this should “definitely” serve as a warning for other European countries which are moving forward—or, more suitably, backwards—with the green agenda. The paper cited other analysts as saying that electricity rationing in the Netherlands is “a harbinger of what is likely to occur in other EU countries,” and that
The country [like many others across Europe] had been so used to relying on its gas resources that power grid upgrades had not kept pace.
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Writer Michael A. Arouet added that “this is what happens when dogmatic green ideology beats common sense.”
This warning is, however, going unnoticed among many of Europe’s leading leftist groups. In Sweden, Left Party MEP Jonas Sjöstedt wrote last week in Expressen that officials should take notes on climate control from Spain, despite the role of net zero in April’s Iberian blackout. The paper’s editorial team has since written a scathing response, suggesting that Sjöstedt may have got “sunstroke” in Spain.
I don't know what I'd do if I was a resident in Amsterdam. They get virtually no peak solar hours in the winter months for someone to set up decentralized solar. An EV and solar work well in my climate for decentralized solar to provide 80% of all the power we consume annually, including charging the EV to drive 18K miles per year (home charged miles alone, not counting trip miles charged away from home on the trips we choose to take the EV). But I live in Alabama, not the Netherlands. EV's and solar seem like a bad combo in the Netherlands, like putting "skinny" and "Stacey Abrams" in the same sentence.
What seems odd to me is that they are moving away from natural gas which is highly efficient and very clean. This really is stupid.
It’s a feature, not a bug.
Yes, rationing shows the leftist government is doing it's job. Begging and desperate people make the politicians feel like they are (lower case) gods.
“But, EVs there will still be able to charge up. Right???”
From the article link I posted above:
“Officials are responding to the issue in the Netherlands, as usual, by tinkering around the edges—for example, by asking consumers to charge their electric bikes and cars outside of peak times.”
It is also not easy being a first class nitwit who doesn’t understand reality.
Green Energy , paying more for an inferior product that only works sometimes ,LOL
The EU is turning into the Old bike riding China ,LOL
“I don’t know what I’d do if I was a resident in Amsterdam. “
There are not many cars in Amsterdam. Parking in the city proper is next to nil. What there is mainly canal side across the sidewalk from the buildings.
Electric bikes are a better bet.
Lol.
Who are the Dutch anyway?
Sounds a lot like a Democrat thing doesn’t it ?
That describes green power almost perfectly. I’m only high school educated, but have no trouble seeing what the problem is here.Guess even a high school education isn’t what it used to be. Heard on TV this morning that our NEA president told the association that their big problem was that the process of education was not as important as “beating Trump”. Would hope she is one of the first to have her electricity cut off if it is to happen. Even NEA presidents need an education, I guess.
There...fixed.
They voted for it. They wanted it. Now they’re getting it - good and hard.
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