By John McClaughry
Here’s an important headline from Die Welt, a leading German newspaper: “Energy Transition Farce Continues in Germany: Regulators, fearing power outages, announce plans to ration power for environmentally friendly, state-promoted electric vehicles and heat pump.”
The story goes on to explain that the German government’s Energiewende, or energy path, has showered subsidies on renewable energy such as wind turbines and electric home heat pumps, and subsidizing replacing internal combustion vehicles with electric vehicles. The Germans have concurrently phased down their nuclear plants, which is rather ridiculous since the nuclear plants don’t emit any carbon dioxide like fossil fuel heating of homes and businesses. The nuclear electricity shortfall is now being covered by a small amount of undependable renewables and a lot of dirty coal. Solar electricity is not a viable option.
This should be relevant to Vermonters since that is exactly what our Climate Council is rushing full speed to implement here — subsidized heat pumps and subsidized electric vehicles and their needed infrastructure. Where are Vermonters, whose enviro extremists have already driven out our dependable Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, going to get enough electricity to run 120,000 electric cars by 2030, not to mention hundreds of thousands of electric heat pumps?
In the article the German energy group Eugyppius put it very clearly: “You can have intermittent windmill power, or you can put everyone in a battery-powered car, but you can’t do both.”
More likely we can’t do either.
John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute. Reprinted with permission from the Ethan Allen Institute Blog.
German household and small business rates is 34 EUROCENT/kWh
Industrial rates are less
In 2022
Includes taxes, fees and surcharges
Hydro Quebec power is 7 cents per kwh… just up the road from here.
The shouldn’t have listened to the potato head biden or sent tanks to the nazi regime in Ukraine, instead realize like Switzerland and Hungry that escalating the war there is not in their best interest. Russia then would gladly sell them all the natural gas they want. Russia is not the enemy, the oneworld order is what Putin is fighting against. WEF, soros, schwabb, rothschilds gates and the potato head’s string pullers are the ones we should all be fighting. . Also as said below they should have listened to Pres Trump who’s been right about everything. (except a lot of his people he picks)
Thank Angela. She should have listened to President Trump. But she didn’t.
This was 2020 average in Europe…I am sure the 2022 number is much higher after the “so called” Putin energy tax….AKA the incompetence energy tax.
21.26 cents per kilowatt hour
In 2020, the average residential consumer’s electricity price in Europe was 21.26 cents per kilowatt hour [cents|kWh], an increase of 13% over the average price of 18.8 cents|kWh 10 years ago. The highest rise in cost within this period has been recorded in the UK [39%] and Greece [36%].
We are already Germany Brother John…. Buy Forest land with plenty of woodlots.
Green Mountain Power has an average residential electricity price of 20.20 cents per kilowatt hour. This is 43.12% more than the national average rate of 14.11 cents, resulting in the supplier ranking 2871st out of 2923 companies in the US for best average electricity rate. They had sales of 4, 040, 763 megawatt hours in 2020 sold to end users.
This was 2020 average in Europe…I am sure the 2022 number is much higher after the “so called” Putin energy tax….AKA the incompetence energy tax.
21.26 cents per kilowatt hour
In 2020, the average residential consumer’s electricity price in Europe was 21.26 cents per kilowatt hour [cents|kWh], an increase of 13% over the average price of 18.8 cents|kWh 10 years ago. The highest rise in cost within this period has been recorded in the UK [39%] and Greece [36%].
Again, Hydro Quebec power is available at the wholesale cost of 7 cents per kwh… just up the road from here.
The PUC allows GMP to purchase 30% of Vermont’s power from HQ as it is. The reason residential rates are higher is because GMP pays more than 20 cents per kwh for wind and solar.
So why doesn’t the PUC allow more HQ power?
Ask PUC Commissioner Margaret Cheney. And keep in mind that her husband, is Senator Peter Welch.
P.S. Also keep in mind that GMP and HQ are owned by the same parent group.