The greatest energy folly of all time… Germany restricts electricity supply while ramping up demand! Rationing unavoidable
Nowadays it seems Germany is doing everything possible to warp-speed ruin itself.
If today’s German leaders were driving a car and wanted to go faster, they would ease off the gas pedal and slam on the brakes – and hope it works! That’s basically how they’re handling the country’s energy crisis. Some would understandably equate it all to lunacy.
Going electric while shutting down power plants
While leaders demand citizens quickly switch over to electric mobility and heat pump systems, thus placing ever huger demands on the power grid, they are reacting by shutting off nuclear and fossil fuel power plants, thus making electricity even more scarce than it already is.
Rationing becoming unavoidable
As Germany’s energy shortages intensify, it’s no surprise that rationing is becoming only way out. And so the Federal Network Agency now proposes that grid operators be allowed to ration electricity in the future to avoid possible overloads caused by charging e-cars and heat pumps. This how grid overloads are to be avoided in the future.
Nightmare for companies
Companies planning to set up shop in Germany may want to think again if they plan on using electricity. Firstly prices have soared and are among the highest in the world, and secondly: don’t expect the supply to be reliable as brownouts are now in the plans.
Even worse for private citizens
For private consumers, it gets even worse. According to the plan, beginning already in 2024, grid operators are to be empowered “to temporarily restrict electricity purchases from private charging stations and heat pumps to avoid peak loads,” reports Blackout News.
Have blankets ready
“If it is proven that the grid could be overloaded, the distribution grid operator has the right to reduce the power,” said Klaus Müller, head of the Federal Network Agency in an interview with BR24. In other words, if it’s January and -10°C outside, your heat pump may be remotely switched off. Have blankets ready.
Power grid totally inadequate
Another problem is the lack of power grid upgrades that are necessary to handle the huge extra demand for power that heat pumps and electric cars will create. The result: severe supply bottlenecks and overloads. Again, the only measure available for the challenge will be rationing.
Lower electric rates for those who have to freeze
“In order to avoid delays in the connection of heat pumps and charging stations, an additional control option by the distribution grid operator is necessary, reports Blackout News. “In the end, a corresponding control means nothing other than a rationing of electricity purchases. As compensation for the affected consumers, it is envisaged that they will receive a reduction in their grid fees.”
Criticism mounts (finally)
A number of industry associations have widely criticized the “unilateral and unlimited throttling” of the power supply and warn this would mean “considerable restrictions for consumers and thus also limit consumer acceptance of heat pumps and electric cars”.
Unless Germany radically changes course in its energy policy, citizens who heat their homes with heat pumps and travel with electric cars may find themselves often stranded in unheated homes in the wintertime.
Greatest energy folly of all time?
No one could have imagined a folly of this scale less than 2 years ago, just before the current Socialist-Green government took over the reins of power at the end of 2021. Other countries may want to avoid the idiotic German path.
This should be amusing. The last European national leader who imposed energy and electricity rationing was Nicolae Ceaucescu. It had unpleasant consequences for him and his family when the Rumanian revolutionaries rounded him up and shot him and his wife. It might be interesting to see what the life expectancy of assorted SPD and Green leaders will be after imposing this.
They will even not be sued for the destruction of the country
This would actually be the perfect outcome. Current politicians have no fear of their constituents. That needs to change.
Agreed. “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson.Or
(1) People should not be afraid of their governments. – YouTube
The FBI snaps its fingers and banks fall all over themselves providing all sorts of private information, as long as the cause is woke enough.
Fear might have been a positive 200 years ago, but surely civilization has evolved. If we don’t teach our children not to fear – governments, climageddon, so-called teachers – then maybe future generations will elect better leaders than we have.
Unfortunately, this will get worse long before it gets better. Violence always has that result, and always backfires in the long run.
Meanwhile Energy Minister Bowen gets rid of the pesky bad news Energy Security Board as the clownfest scrabbles about knowing they need more reliable gas if the lights aren’t to go out but how to sugarcoat that for the troops-
Energy tsar board axed as ministers clean up transition (msn.com)
This is the result when untested, unproven technologies are adopted with no track record. If other jurisdictions fall for too much socially fashionable Green gimmicks, they’ll be in the same boat as Germany and deserve it.
This from the nation that launched two world wars it had no chance of winning and legally elected the NSDAP with Adolf Hitler as Chancellor. No surprise here that they engage in nationaler Selbstmord.
“As compensation for the affected consumers, it is envisaged that they will receive a reduction in their grid fees.”
To paraphrase Han Solo, “I can envisage quite a lot”, but cynical experience tells me that won’t happen.
It looks like Germany is intent in joining that elite group of “test case” countries: Malta for how quickly one can take down a Catholic nation and make it foremost in LGBT ideology, Canada for wiping out history and the individual, Germany for reducing an economic powerhouse to ashes, and Venezuela from richest to poorest South American nation.