Essay by Eric Worrall
German landlords can now turn down living area thermostats without tenants permission, thanks to Germany’s failed Energiewende programme, and Germany’s complete failure to plan for contingencies.
“EVERY CONTRIBUTION COUNTS”
Close the doors, turn off the lights, turn down the heating – these energy-saving rules will apply to private individuals and companies from September
08/24/2022, 16:55
New energy-saving measures will apply in Germany from September 1st. The cabinet passed a corresponding ordinance, which stipulates, for example, that retailers keep the doors of their shops closed and that monuments are no longer illuminated. An overview.
Starting next Thursday, numerous energy-saving regulations will apply in Germany : Shop doors must not be left open all the time, neon signs must go out after 10 p.m., and monuments must not be illuminated. At the workplace, a room temperature of 19 degrees Celsius should be sufficient, in public buildings the corridors remain cold. Additional regulations are scheduled to come into force on October 1.
On Wednesday, the cabinet passed two regulations based on the Energy Security Act, which are intended to save energy both in this heating season and in the coming ones. The first regulation applies from September 1st for six months, i.e. until February 28th.
Contract clauses in leases about a certain temperature are suspended for the six months. Tenants who want to save energy and turn down the heating should also be allowed to do so, as the Ministry of Economic Affairs explained.
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Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) said after the cabinet meeting that the measures could save two to two and a half percent of energy consumption in Germany. That is “not so much that we can lean back” – the federal government’s savings target for winter is 20 percent.
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Read more: https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/energiesparen–diese-massnahmen-gelten-ab-september-fuer-privatleute-und-firmen-32661296.html
This will not be the last of Germany’s draconian energy saving measures. Green Party member, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck admits this energy rationing plan only saves 2.5% of the 20% energy reduction target the German government believes is required to prevent a winter blackout. I doubt anybody in Germany knows how they will achieve the rest of the 20% cut.
10 new nuclear plants could have saved Germany from all this hardship – each existing nuclear plant contributes around 2% of Germany’s energy needs, so as a rough estimate, 10 additional plants would have made up the 20% energy shortfall. Nuclear power plants only have to be refuelled every two years, so a decent nuclear programme could have completely shielded ordinary Germans and the German economy from fuel availability and price problems.
If Germany had enough reactor capacity, all the uranium reactor fuel Germany would have needed to make up their energy shortfall could have been delivered well before winter, from a friendly country like Australia. Highly radioactive nuclear waste needs careful handling, but Uranium fuel transport is much more straightforward, the radioactivity is low enough than it can be transported in regular shipping containers. Since nuclear fuel contains a million times more energy than fossil fuel, stockpiling enough nuclear fuel for winter energy needs would have been easily achievable.
But German politicians rejected the zero carbon nuclear option, and bet everything on their failed Energiewende renewable energy plans, while ignoring well meaning advice from politicians like President Trump, that Russia is an untrustworthy energy partner.
Imagine what will happen if there is a Covid or Flu outbreak this winter in Germany, with millions of ordinary people shivering in cold, energy rationed apartments, with energy too expensive to use for heating, even if the electricity or gas is available.
Of course no German politician or high ranking official is likely to suffer from cold this winter, they always seem to take care of themselves first. It is ordinary Germans who will pay for the stupidity and arrogance of their leaders.
“The first regulation applies from September 1st for six months, i.e. until February 28th.”
Is February 28th when they turn up the renewables?
The clip presents Donald Trump telling the world via his UN speech a truth. They laughed in the German delegation in a mocking pose of ‘what does he know and who will listen to the orange man’
The clip discusses how only Donald Trump was prepared to say what we all knew to be the risks of energy dependence on Russia.
I just wish the media has the courage to report truth when it conflicts with the main stream political agenda and started to behave like reporters rather than propagandists for the global agenda.
This winter will be hard, not just for those nations like Germany that have conspired with Russia to destroy Western energy security but all European nations including the UK that have blindly followed the Green Energy rule book. The unaffordability of energy thanks to blocking of fossil fuel extraction, along with the unreliability of ‘renewable power suppliers’ given grid connection priority will leave ordinary families in cold/hungry despair.
Thank you Green Energy advocates, and thank you WEF, your work is almost complete. The Great Reset advertised by (Prince) Charles Windsor has done its work people are in despair.
Was that the objective?
Winter 2022: danceing with Green Devils created millions of shivering blue paupers.
Because of the assertion that humans have warmed the planet using cheep reliable energy, especially the polar regions, Germany has cut back on cheep reliable energy. Now there is no cheep reliable energy during the northern winter. Wait – I thought the planet was warming uncontrollably and without precedent? Winter doesn’t happen any more?
Anti-nuclear
Anti-coal
Anti-Russian energy imports
Anti-fracking
This is the result in Germany.
The German energy policy decisions are so bad it sems like some enemy nation is making the decisions for Germany.
The good news: Do the opposite of Germany and your nation will be okay,
I do not think Trump was vindicated.
Trump wanted Germany to buy more expensive LNG by ship from the US
They decided to keep buying cheaper Russian gas via pipeline.
Trump predicted that Russia might someday not be a reliable supplier but the US would be.
He did not predict the German government would force harsh sanctions on Russia and demand that German companies stop paying rubles for energy as soon as possible.
So far Germany has reduced natural gas imports from Russia by over 50%. They want to reach 100% by mid-2024, but there is one problem. They do not have LNG infrastructure to accept so much LNG by tanker, assuming it is available.
In addition, as the EU stops buying gas from Russia, that forces Gazprom to reduce gas production — there’s nowhere to store all the gas they can produce. As a result, the world supply of natural gas is reduced. Unless world demand for natural gas is reduced by the same amount, the price of gas must rise higher than it would have otherwise been,
German tax payer, punished two times. They had their hard earned taxes usurped for a failed idealism, and now they have to suffer the consequences of that failed idealism.
Germans aren’t known for engaging in revolts, but I wonder if one is around the corner.
We just got our good news
“ENERGY bills for UK households will jump to all-time highs in October as the state regulator today announced that the price cap will be raised to an unprecedented level, making energy more expensive at home than almost anywhere in Europe “
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1659283/energy-prices-latest-uk-europe-gas-electricity-inflation-ofgem-announcement-spt
How much? An 80% increase to. £3,549
What’s your problem Europe as Putin is doing exactly what you always wanted-
Putin is ‘doing exactly’ what Europe wanted (msn.com)
Hindsight is great innit – it’s now obvious where Engywendywendy went wrong.
They should have imposed these saving measures while everything was still ‘cooking on gas‘
i.e. Before they stopped the coal stations and switched off the nukes
Then, The People would have had a taste of what was to come and decided/voted/rioted/emigrated/twitted/faceborked as they best felt fit.
But no, The Emperor’s Costumer sold them a story…..
Damned expensive it was at the time, that that was just a down-payment.
Or, recalling that hideous child-molesting parody of humanity (Shwab?) from the WEF, is the tale of the Pied Piper more apt?
Cut back on energy is catching-
Public should cut back on energy use, says chancellor in government U-turn (msn.com)
Britons never never never shall be slaves to Putin. Be slaves to Xi instead eh lefties?
theyre shutting down at least one aluminium smelter and other industrial users
so cold and unemployed workers really will be struggling.
using sports and other large centres as warming places isnt going to help much- people have to go back to cold homes, and if its cold/snowing and they dont own a car..or have a close bus or train stop,any supposed warmup will be a memory by the time they get through their doors.big wakeup for useless solar n wind in cold weather isnt it?
as should be listening to usa/nato wef etc and ruining a stable supplier of fuels to support a corrupt government like ukraines
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/im-afraid-czech-president-blames-green-madness-energy-crisis
DO watch PJW clip at the bottom of the page;-)
Germany’s problems are entirely a fossil fuel issue and nothing to do with any imaginary failure of Energiewende
tell me again WHO??? is the UNreliable supplier?
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/climbing-natural-gas-prices-could-force-us-slash-exports-europe
One word: schadenfreude.
This is what the majority of voters in Europe freely and willingly chose.
It’s not a secret what the result would be.
As a candidate Obama was still young and honest enough to tell the truth. And, as he famously said, elections have consequences.
Ten new nuclear plants might have been the solution, but they would be underutilized whenever the sun shone or the wind blew, making them less economic and therefore even more expensive than they already are.
“Could save 2%” Doubt it. Dialing back to 66 degrees F in work places (only) when they may already be pretty low? If tripling the cost doesn’t do it, what will?
Smart meters and automatic shut-downs seem the way for a good German to go to spread their self-inflicted misery.
If I’m reading this correctly, draconian measures on john q public get them to 10-15% of their target? There is a lot to unpack here. The short version is apparenly they do not know how to keep the lights on. The govt. admits this. They are pre-positioning fuel and supplies for security forces, with emphasis on keeping them operational when the power is out. I’m pretty sure I saw this movie. It was called the Hunger Games.
But at least they managed to keep the planet from warming 0.0004 degrees. That will comfort ordinary people as they freeze to death in the dark.
The candle in the picture brought to mind Michael Faraday’s very popular lecture series, “The Chemical History of a Candle.”
We need to present the Scientific History of Climate in a clear and entertaining way to young people today so a new generation will approach this subject with wonder and not alarm.
The US played the Trump card back then and won handily. Now they are just Biden their time waiting for a miracle to save them from ruin. Yes elections have consequences.
This is bad and wrong.
From the above article’s quoted text from http://www.stern.de , near the end:
“. . . the measures could save two to two and a half percent of energy consumption in Germany . . . the federal government’s savings target for winter is 20 percent”.
OK, Germany, that’s 12.5% of the way toward your winter energy savings goal . . . now where do you go?