Re:How Not to Fight Inflation
by inglor_cz on Saturday July 16, 2022 @10:50AM
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I just read a German interview with two technical professors about energy security in Germany.
They warned that massive investments into windmills and solar MUST be accompanied by massive investments into the grid, and that Germany fails spectacularly in the latter, especially because of onerous regulation and incessant NIMBYism. Namely, a lot of power from renewables is being produced in northern Germany and the shallow seas around it, where the country is only sparsely inhabited, and it is almost impossible to get this power in adequate volumes to the consumers in the highly developed and power-hungry regions in the south - Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg.
One of them also stated that Germany managed to build only about a fifth of the necessary network of new power lines in the last decade.
Greetings from Europe. It is not really any better here. Logistics is hard. Logistics in electricity doubly so.
They warned that massive investments into windmills and solar MUST be accompanied by massive investments into the grid, and that Germany fails spectacularly in the latter, especially because of onerous regulation and incessant NIMBYism. Namely, a lot of power from renewables is being produced in northern Germany and the shallow seas around it, where the country is only sparsely inhabited, and it is almost impossible to get this power in adequate volumes to the consumers in the highly developed and power-hungry regions in the south - Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg.
One of them also stated that Germany managed to build only about a fifth of the necessary network of new power lines in the last decade.
Greetings from Europe. It is not really any better here. Logistics is hard. Logistics in electricity doubly so.