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What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?

Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain

“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.

Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain

Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets...

Image by Semevent from Pixabay By Jo Nova The trend is spreading. Coal, the stranded asset of a bygone era, is hot property again everywhere. All it took was a few weeks of an energy crisis, and decades of brainwashing against...

Vahreholt advocates for a return to nuclear energy (using subsidy billions to build new plants), the use of domestic shale gas, and the continued operation of coal-fired power plants...

Robert Habeck says world has moved on from weaponising energy to using tariffs, technology and more to inflict harm

While in 1990 one-third of Europe’s energy came from nuclear, today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it was as strategic mistake for Europe to turn its back...

Prospect of Trump easing US sanctions on Russian oil is a nightmare for the bloc as nations work out how to respond

If we want things to be ‘Made in Europe’ again, we need to be realistic about how grimy and grey our centres of commerce once were

Coalition government agrees to remove parts of controversial law and allow homes to rely on fossil fuels

Baseload power sources — whether nuclear or coal — were dismissed prematurely with pie-in-the-sky magical-thinking that a renewables-centric system could replace them quickly...

Germany’s energy woes were compounded by the country’s move away from coal and nuclear power as part as its transition to green energies. According to Spiegelsperger, “We have switched from nuclear and coal now mainly...

Politicians, media lying about “harsh winter” being the cause of the shortage… Reality: Mismanagement is to blame…Germany was never even prepared for a WARM winter!