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).
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).