This article is a mess. Waste of time. I’m not even sure if Germany’s prices are indeed too high or not, as you can’t easily compare prices like it is done in the article.
“… but its prices remain tied to volatile fossil fuels.”
Yeah… no.
https://flex-power.energy/energyblog/the-great-decoupling/
But I guess the daily fairy tale of expensive renewables is important to keep the money from fossil lobbyists flowing…
Did not read the article, sorry if there is more context
But the quote you picked sounds like the opposite and more like a critisism of fossile fules
It’s one of the usual variants of “renewables don’t work”. In this case the story how cheap renewables are irrelevant as prices are tied to fossil fuels anyway, which we can’t replace.
Which is -see: the link I provided- not true at all. In actual reality renewables are pushing out fossil fuels to a constantly increasing extent, massively reducing production costs in those time frames, that will naturally increase with more renewables and storage.
And they then smoothly transition to the next propaganda tale we hear from fossil fuel lobbyists on a daily basis: how Germany has invested so much in renewables, earning them the highest electricity costs in Europe (read: renewables are actually expensive!).
You need to read the whole article to the end (and we all know barely anyone does) to find the small final paragraphs putting everything said before into perspective (without high taxes Germany would be on the cheaper end, and it’s actually a lack of smart grid handling and storage that makes redispatch measures neccessary).
Just comparing overall prices per kWh is useless since large and especially energy-intensive companies pay far lower prices than consumers. In Germany, consumers pay a high proportion of the costs of the transition to renewable energy, and earn a small proportion of the cost savings.
Its not news at all. Electricity prices in Germany have been bad for a while now, ever since the war in Ukraine started, when we stopped buying cheap russian gas and shut down nuclear. Still its the right path to renewables, we shall never depend on russia or any single actor in this way again hopefully.
German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels.
OK bullshit already from the first sentence! 🤮 🤡
Germany is expensive because they chose to close their nuclear power, and scrambled to replace it, and have high taxes on electricity. It’s neither because or despite renewable energy.
Denmark has way more renewable energy than Germany, but it has been built since already in the 70’s.
The reason Denmark is expensive in 2025 is because we had a 0,90 DKK tax which is equivalent to 0,12 €.
Without that we would be at 0,21 or near the bottom of the prices in EU. And our electricity is 91% renewable, while Germany only has 61%! The tax was removed in Denmark per January first 2026.It’s also extremely misleading to list the prices including taxes, hiding the actual cost without tax.
When it’s a tax, it’s not the electricity, but part of the entire tax structure of the country, for instance higher energy tax could mean lower tax on vegetables, and vice versa.
AFAIK the article was not supposed to be about tax, but about electricity prices.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable_electricity_production
Bullshit article with bullshit false info. German electricity is NOT expensive because of renewable, but because of taxes and closing the nuclear power plants before replacement of that power was in place.
