Green Energy Fail: Germany Imposes Strict Winter Rationing on Individuals and Companies

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German landlords are legally allowed to turn down living area thermostats without tenants permission, thanks to Germany’s failed Energiewende program, and Germany’s complete failure to plan for contingencies.

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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 (Green Party) 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. That means many more measures are due to come, as needed.

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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 saves only 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 to achieve the rest of the 20% cut.

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Nuclear Plants: 10 new nuclear plants could have saved Germany from all this hardship – each existing nuclear plant contributes around 2% of Germany’s ener..., so as a rough estimate, 10 additional plants would have made up the 20% energy shortfall.

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Nuclear power plants run 24/7/365. They have to be refueled every 500 days, so a decent nuclear program could have completely shielded ordinary Germans and the German economy from fuel availability and price problems.

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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.

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Highly radioactive nuclear waste needs careful handling

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However, Uranium fuel transport is much more straightforward, the radioactivity is low enough that it can be transported in regular shipping containers. Because nuclear fuel contains a million times more energy than fossil fuel, stockpiling enough nuclear fuel for winter energy needs would have been easily achievable.

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But German politicians rejected, and are still rejecting, the zero carbon nuclear option, and bet everything on their failed, underperforming, weather-dependent wind/solar/battery, etc., set-up.

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Germans laughed at President Trump's well-meaning advice, that Russia might become an unavailable energy partner. Trump likely knew, the US had secret plans to have NATO arm and train Ukraine, and use Ukraine as a proxy to maintain Russia in a weakened condition for years.

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Imagine what would happen, if there would be 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 would be available.

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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.

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It is the ordinary Germans who will pay for the stupidity, arrogance and stubbornness of their leaders.

APPENDIX 6

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COLD WEATHER OPERATION IN NEW ENGLAND DECEMBER 24, 2017 to  JANUARY 8, 2018