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> starting 1st of Jan the prices will increase even further due to an increased CO2 tax and the Green Party has announced to further push this tax up > At the
by 908B64B197 5y ago
> starting 1st of Jan the prices will increase even further due to an increased CO2 tax and the Green Party has announced to further push this tax up
> At the same time, 3 of 6 nuclear power plants will be shut down on 31st December 2021 - in 2 days. As the Green Party does want to accelerate the transition to e-mobility, projections show that we have a demand for several new natural gas power plants in Germany.
Wait, so they are raising "green" taxes to... shut down and decommision carbon neutral nuclear power and instead build natural gas plants that will pump out tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Did I read that corectly?
- 88840-8855 5y agoRight. But there is one more point. We also plan to build coal-fired power plants, which are cleaner in terms of the total cost of ownership, decommission coal plants, build new gas-fired power plants, run them for only a few years, and then shut them down. Energy policy in Germany is strange, expensive and a threat to the industrial competitiveness.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoYup. And instead of working on reducing electricity prices they will bump diesel prices by €0.18/litre so it all “looks better”.
- londons_explore 5y agoAt very high electricity prices, just running your own diesel generator and disconnecting from the grid makes sense.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoApparently it ain’t easy to put 5k litre diesel tank in a garden in Germany.