• DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    Good news.

    In Germany, we have a special situation currently: our minister for energy is a Trojan horse of the old guys energy club. She worked as CEO for a utility compnay that is heavily in gas power. And guess what she proposes now to stabilize the demand-production-balance? Yes, build more gas generators. Everybody hates her. Even her own staff in the minstery bureau. Apparently it’s corruption but somehow a legal one. They caught her getting sms messages with the text for a new law nailing the new gas generators. Writen by power companies. Still she’s staying.

    My take: the government will throw money on the problem to solve it. Not brain and a vision. So, we’ll get gas generators that work for 2-4years and then taken over by batteries. And they’ll raise the taxes because of out of money. It’s a pity, people want the power transformation and right-wing policies hinder it and raise the costs.

    Meanwhile I’ll install a PV and batteries in my house to lower my energy costs.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      11 days ago

      Nice. Something very similar has happened in the past couple weeks as a new transmission line brought a whole lot of wind to California. Gas peakers just aren’t needed in the evening anymore