Reposted from the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on January 19, 2021
Is the German model America’s future?
Using matches to fight gasoline fires? Even More interference appears to be the federal government’s approach to resolving the electricity grid chaos that its earlier interference primarily caused.
Germany is struggling to keep the lights on and is looking for a law to prevent its power grid from crashing.
Before the days of climate alarmism and hysteria, it was left to the power generation engineers and experts – people who actually understood it – to choose the best power generation. The result: Germany had one of the most stable and reliable power grids in the world.
Green energies destabilized the German power grid
In the nineties, environmental activists, politicians, climate alarmists and pseudo-experts decided that they could do a better job of generating electricity in Germany and finally passed the failed EEG law and the rules for feeding in green energy. They insisted that volatile, intermittent power supplies could be managed easily and at low cost.
There is a threat of power outages
Fast forward to today: The result of all government interference is clear: the country is on the verge of power outages due to grid instability, has the highest electricity prices in the world, is more dependent on imports and is not even close to achieving its emissions targets.
The rickety and capricious German power grid is now threatening the entire stability of the European power grid, as we saw recently.
The need to “smooth out” demand is greatest
What solution is Berlin proposing today? You guessed it: more meddling and meddling, more fancy bureaucratic solutions. These include the shutdown of the remaining base load coal and nuclear power plants and the even greater dependence on the power sources that have brought the country into its current chaos in the first place.
And new are restrictions on when electricity can be consumed by consumers and industry! Energy rationing and targeted power outages.
Hat-tip. Tichy’s insight
Shutdown of e-vehicle battery chargers and industry
In order to solve the power grid problems, the German Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier presented a bill that would allow electricity providers to “temporarily cut off charging power for electric cars when there is insufficient power again,” an idea known as “peak smoothing”.
“Shutdowns due to power outages have been in practice for some time. For example, aluminum smelters have to put up with switching off the power supply for a limited period of time, ”reports Tichysffekt. “Like cold rooms, these consume large quantities. It’s a dangerous game because after three hours the molten metal has solidified and the factory is ruined. “
Situation now “too critical”
The situation in the German power grid has deteriorated so much that Tichysverletzung also comments: “The situation in the grid has become too critical. The only thing that helps are absurd ideas like: “You are not allowed to fill up your car from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day!”
A law that would enable “peak smoothing” has been required by energy providers for some time, as they have difficulties preventing the increasingly wind and solar-powered grid from getting out of control and going black. In other words: targeted power outages.
And as Tichy Infrastructure mentions, the increasing number of cars on the market will only result in more extreme power demand peaks. Germany is currently taking a big step towards electromobility this year.
No electricity for up to 2 hours a day
The proposed bill, which has since been recalled for being considered so embarrassing, wrote that “controllable consumption devices” could receive No Electricity for up to two hours per day if there was a risk of network overload.
“These include charging stations for e-cars and heat pumps that can already be temporarily disconnected from the power supply,” reports Tichy.
More load on the power grid
There are currently only 33,000 charging stations for electric cars in Germany, a country with over 50 million cars. The government is planning a huge expansion in the future, but is not sure what this infrastructure will look like. It’s a policy to go full blast in total darkness and hope that there isn’t a wall in the way.
The government admits it won’t work
Tichy further comments: “The federal government has recognized that in the future it will no longer be possible to meet every need at any time. Therefore, the control of the consumer side should be put on legal feet. ” […] “Controllable consumers such as heat pumps, electric heaters and wall boxes, ie charging stations for e-cell phones, would then be switched off at times.”
This is the sad state of the once highly regarded German power grid.
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