German Green Energy fantasies are bleeding cash and failing fast
BEEGE WELBORN 2:41 PM on December 16, 2022
(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
The news on German energy never gets any better. It seems as if they lurch from miserable New Age renewable schemes to desperately throwing cash at the flaming remnants trying to mitigate the fallout, then lather, rinse repeat. In the meantime, for all the promises of greener pastures, the wind doesn’t blow, winter is cold, the Russians start a war – the Germans can’t manipulate a thing to fall their way.
Wind was supposed to be the savior for the country’s transition to renewables, scheduled to be completed by 2045. That’s not humming along like they’d game-planned it. Last year and this past summer, in fact, the wind itself turned downright hostile to producing anything, and flat-out refused to blow. During the European winter, repeated large-scale high-pressure systems combined with wide-scale low-cloud coverage routinely produce something called the dreaded cold “dunkelflaute” or “anti-cyclonic gloom” (they’re both great terms).
In the coming decades, the European energy system is expected to become increasingly reliant on non-dispatchable generation such as wind and solar power. Under such a renewable energy scenario, a better characterization of the extreme weather condition ‘Dunkelflaute’, which can lead to a sustained reduction of wind and solar power, is important.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2022/12/16/german-green-energy-fantasies-are-bleeding-cash-and-failing-fast-n518296
