{"id":305524,"date":"2024-03-02T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305524"},"modified":"2024-03-02T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T08:46:45","slug":"germanys-energy-mess-intensifies-power-ceo-warns-of-further-rising-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305524","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Energy Mess Intensifies: Power CEO Warns Of Further \u201cRising Prices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackout News: \u201cEON chief warns of a cost explosion due to transition to green energies.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackout News here reports<\/a> that there\u2019s no end in sight for Germany\u2019s self-inflicted energy crisis. Energy prices are expected to continue rising, thus posing a huge risk to industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is of course no surprise as Germany, driven by radical green dogmatism, has shut down its fleet of nuclear power plants and is moving to also eliminate power plants fired by coal and natural gas. The country\u2019s economy and environmental policy is led by economics minister Robert Habeck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is that Habeck is woefully unqualified for leading the country\u2019s federal economics ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000,Habeck received his doctorate in literature and philosophy<\/a>\u00a0at University Hamburg, and has no experience in any fields of economics, business, engineering or energy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently Habeck claimed that companies do not go bankrupt, rather they just stop producing, and that the economy was okay \u2013 \u201conly the numbers are bad\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EON chief warns of further rising energy costs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the year, head of Eon, Leonard Birnbaum, announced higher electricity prices and this is \u201cnow manifesting itself in reality,\u201d\u00a0reports Blackout News<\/a>. \u201cA few weeks after this forecast, energy companies EnBW and EWE announced their intention to increase tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increase will average 6%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birnbaum blames \u201cincreased investment costs\u201d as the expansion of renewable energies and their integration into the electricity grid requires \u201crapid and intelligent grid expansion as well as sufficient reserve capacity\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn view of current developments, Birnbaum warns of further price increases if the political leadership does not take decisive countermeasures. Energy-intensive industry in particular is severely affected by rising electricity costs, which jeopardizes its competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birnbaum also says that wind energy has been hampered by \u201cuncoordinated planning\u201d and \u201cthe problem of overloading the electricity grids due to the uneven distribution of wind turbines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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