Nuclear-Free Germany Forced To Import Expensive Nuclear Power From France As Election Looms

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Germany is importing huge quantities of nuclear-generated electricity from France, due to insufficient winds and sunshine — placing the left-wing government’s decision to shut down Germany’s nuclear power plants firmly under the spotlight in the lead-up to next month’s federal elections.

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Here you see the glum faces of the most stupid people in Europe

Rather than producing its own clean nuclear energy, Berlin is importing electricity from France at a far higher cost this week as winter grips the nation with colder temperatures, overcast skies, and weak winds drastically reducing solar and wind power generation.

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“Friday is a very weak day. There will also be little wind on Saturday. Monday will be almost a total loss for wind energy. Tuesday will also be difficult. The high-pressure system is extremely stable,”warned weather expert Karsen Brandt from Donnerwetter.de, as cited by Bild.

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With high energy demand but insufficient green electricity, Germany’s grid operators have had to resort to importing energy at a premium — primarily from France, where nuclear power plants are running at full capacity.

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These imports have been going on for at least 15 years, but they are getting larger and more expensive, as more wind and solar systems are added to the grid.

It is called "hitting the wall" as predicted by many Energy Systems Analysts about 25 years ago.

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Germany still had its own nuclear production facilities until April 2023, but the demented, woke, left-wing federal government under Social Democrat (SPD) Chancellor Olaf Scholz and philosophy major Hybeck, leader of the Greens, shut them all down.

The move was highly controversial, at a time when energy prices were sky-high, due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and European nations were attempting to wean themselves off Russian gas.

Just five weeks before the federal election, the SPD-Green government’s energy policy is under intense scrutiny, with supply risks and skyrocketing prices fueling growing criticism.

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Energy expert Prof. Manuel Frondel of the RWI Institute described the situation bluntly.

“By phasing out nuclear power and coal, we have become heavily dependent on foreign countries and accepted higher supply risks.”

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This strategic miscalculation is not new.

Similar shortages in December saw Germany’s electricity prices surge to record highs, with some businesses forced to halt production due to unaffordable costs.

This led to electricity prices on the exchange soaring more than tenfold, reaching as high as €1,156 per megawatt-hour.

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Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING Diba, warned that prices could continue to rise, despite nuclear imports from France.

“I assume that prices will keep increasing. This does not immediately impact all consumers, as many have fixed-price contracts. However, those on dynamic pricing models will feel the effects.”

Although Brzeski does not expect prices to exceed €1,000 per megawatt-hour, the ongoing volatility remains a serious concern.

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With just five weeks until the federal election, the SPD-Green government’s energy policy is facing growing, self-inflicted backlash.

The decision to shut down nuclear power, while depending on expensive imports from France, is increasingly viewed as a policy failure, especially as electricity shortages become more frequent.

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Opposition leaders have long criticized the decision, including Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel who has pledged to reverse the policy and revitalize Germany’s nuclear energy sector.

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Branding wind turbines “windmills of shame” during a recent X Spaces conversation with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, Weidel vowed to return to nuclear energy and build more coal power stations.

“They switched off the last nuclear power plant to create even more of a shortage of energy, so either you must be very stupid or you just hate your own people,” Weidel said of the current administration.

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Musk expressed alignment with the AfD’s positions, particularly on energy policy.

“Germany should really keep its nuclear power plants running. I think that’s extremely important,” he said.

The Angry European People 

Such so-called energy policies, dreamt up by Liberal Arts majors and Lawyers and naive Bureaucrats and Legislators will be rejected by most of the over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished, angry voters in Europe, trying to make ends meet in a near-zero, real-growth European economy. with high interest rates, high inflation rates, high energy and consumer prices, and decreasing, spendable, real household incomes,

- plus paying for closing nuclear plants, that should have been kept running to provide secure, low-cost domestic electricity, instead of importing insecure, high-cost electricity from nearby grids, when winds and sunshine are insufficient.

- plus paying taxes for tens of millions of unskilled, poor, culturally different, Third World people from all over, with higher birth rates than the natives, and much higher crime rates than the natives

- plus paying taxes for increased weapons production, budget aid, etc., to keep the Ukraine proxy war going "for as long as it takes".

- plus paying more for gas and other items, because Ukraine, likely with urging from the US/UK, shut down the transit line carrying Russian gas.

- plus paying more for gas and other items, because Ukraine, likely with urging from the US/UK, bombed the pumping station of Turk-stream, the last remaining gas pipeline to Europe carrying Russian gas.

- plus paying for highly subsidized, grid disturbing, expensive, wind a solar systems, that need various expensive support systems, and produce very expensive electricity (wholesale, 15 c/kWh offshore, 18 c/kWh floating offshore, after 50% subsidies, such as grants, tax credits, 5-y write off, deduction of loan interest, government- guaranteed loans, and work only if there is sufficient wind, and sunshine. 

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Government, the Corporate Media, the Social Media

The dysfunctional, leftist, pro-war, governments of France, the UK and Germany are teetering.

The angry people are voting for centrist/rightist parties that better represent their interests.

The EU and the parties in power threaten to annul elections, if they do not like the outcomes, as was done in Rumania, etc.

Van den Leyen threatens "we have tools"

This smells of desperation and coercion.

For many decades, the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media has kept the European people in an coma with a diet of entertainment/paparazzi/sports/managed-news, which worked as long as people were prosperous.

But Social Media came along, such as X, owned by Elon Musk, which provides a World Forum for people to share opinions, including embarrassing revelations, not covered by the Corporate Media.

The European elites have declared Musk Public Enemy No. 2, after Trump

These elites are threatening to shut X down.

Democracy is teetering.

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