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Here in Germany we pay about 25 euro cents/kWH for electricity, which is about 3x the price in the U.S. 6 euro cents of this is just to pay for subsidies to win

Here in Germany we pay about 25 euro cents/kWH for electricity, which is about 3x the price in the U.S. 6 euro cents of this is just to pay for subsidies to wind and solar producers, i.e. we pay about as much just in subsidies as you pay for generation and delivery. Worse, this subsidy is on every kWH consumed, and only about 30% of total electricity is from renewable sources. This would be destroying German industry except that they get special low-priced electricity, so it merely reduces the living standard of everyone else.

undersuit 12y ago
We can just continue burning coal downwind of you then. Wouldn't want to move to something more expensive.
dredmorbius 12y ago
I've been looking into that today (though solid data are hard to find). Seems that the actual generation costs are actually on par with much of Europe, but it's taxes which raise the costs significantly. I'm in favor of raising prices of energy in general. It's not as if Germany seems to be suffering economically relative to the rest of Europe.