Electricity is over 30 ct/kWh in Germany, and short-term, they will be unable to offer it much cheaper. Does that mean black-outs and people not getting electricity? No, but at those prices, heavy industry like steel mills and aluminum foundries will have to move abroad.

And it won't get better with the numbers of EVs on the roads going up. Germany burns around 50M tons of gasoline per year. If you want to replace that with electricity, you need to install tens of gigawatts of additional powerplant capacity - and that's not "peak capacity" renewable plants advertise. Real, 24h-capacity.

And that's not looking good, either. Thanks to all the NIMBYs, the actual number of megawatt turbines being built is shameful.

That's a cherry picked stat, isn't it?

Your country is also increasing its coal output and the output of energy produced by coal in double digits and out wiping villages such as Lutzerah to create some of the biggest coal mines in the world.

Yes, you are energy starved too.

Also, how there's no EVs? From all WV brands including Skoda to luxury makers from Mercedes to Porsche, *all* of your automakers have multiple EVs sitting in your dealerships.

Switching from "scary" nuclear to coal isn't the smart move at all.

Solar is intermittent at best and a bunch of your energy is still reliant on natural gas. But it seems that the German government is doing the smart thing and subsidising local solar installations.