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Germany’s new energy policy “is a curse,” argues Handelsblatt, which reports that instead of causing shortages, the 2011 decision to abandon nuclear power resulted in an overproduction of solar and wind power, which saturated the country’s grid.
The reports from the official body which monitors the system read “like a thriller,” points out the business daily, which cites a number of extracts —
The safety of the network was no longer guaranteed. [...] We had to intervene more than 40 times to disconnect entire power stations and wind parks, which endangered the safety of the system. The stress generated by these situations was increasingly difficult to manage.
In 2012, some 23 per cent of the electricity produced in Germany was sourced from renewables, and the plan is to increase this figure to 80 per cent by 2050.
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