Today we check in with Blackout News to find out the latest news on Germany’s green energy follies.
The latest is that the country’s increasingly green electric power grid is increasingly unable to handle the “climate-friendly” electric mobility and heat pumps the German government is pushing. [emphasis, links added]
It’s widely known that Germany’s electric power supply has a grid that’s constantly on the brink of power outages, even blackouts.
This is due in large part to the rushed phasing out of baseload coal and nuclear power while installing mass capacities of unstable wind and solar power.
As Germany pushes ever-greater burdens onto the power grid, its government continues taking measures to weaken the grid rather than bolster it.
Since Germany’s natural gas supply disruption has caused energy prices to skyrocket, homeowners and motorists are looking for alternative heating sources and modes of mobility.
Little wonder Germans are looking more and more to heat pumps for home heating and electric cars for their mobility.
But there’s a problem, Black News reports: “The President of the Federal Network Agency is now calling for the forced throttling of heat pumps and charging stations.” This is because the power grid cannot cope with the added load.
“The head of the network agency, Mr. Müller, sees new risks for the supply of electricity and gas. Private individuals installing charging stations or pumps could overload local grids,” according to Blackout News. “To prevent this, the power of these devices could be throttled.”
The government wants to push electric cars and heat pumps, but the agencies are warning it’s not possible – because over the past 20 years, Germany has wrecked its once extremely stable electric power supply, which was responsible for a tiny, inconsequential fraction of the world’s CO2 emissions.
According to Müller, “there could be overload problems and local power outages if we don’t act”.
“The authority in Bonn considers low-voltage local networks to be particularly susceptible to disruptions.”
Müller also told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that in critical times, heaters and chargers should not be completely cut off from the power supply. He promised that there will always be a minimum supply.
“The CEO of Düsseldorf-based energy company E.on, Thomas König, described the current power grid as being inadequate and called for the “quick expansion and modernization of local and regional power grids”.
Top image shows a nuclear power plant.
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GE Hitachi and Ontario Power Generation just signed a contract for the first small modular reactor in North America, to be installed at the Darlington nuclear site east of Toronto. Just one? Also in the headlines, Tesla and Ford have started a price war, discounting their EV’s. Why? To sell as many as possible before there’s not enough juice to go around? What does the Mustang “E” stand for? Edsel.
Germany is experiencing what happens when physical reality runs up against political philosophy. The physical reality is that wind and solar can not power a modern industrial society.
“Germany wants to push electric cars”: that’s all too true!