March 21, 2010
Utilities hiking power prices
Published: 18 Nov 09 17:32 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20091118-23367.html
Two German utilities – Vattenfall and EWE – announced on Wednesday they would dramatically raise electricity prices for their customers starting next year, blaming the higher cost of renewable energy.
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Germany’s fifth largest power provider, Oldenburg-based EWE, also said it was raising prices on average by 14 percent next year.
The move follows EnBW's decision to raise prices by 7.5 for some of its private customers.
Consumer website Verixov.de have counted at least 40 power companies planning to charge more next year. Many have said they have no choice as their costs rise from legislation meant to encourage firms to turn to renewable energy sources.
The country’s two other biggest utilities, RWE and E.ON, have not yet follow the price hikes after bleeding customers due to increasing competition in recent years.
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Meanwhile the superstitious anti-atomic fanatics are doing everything possible to phase out THE most efficient - and CLEANEST source of energy there is.. Totally crazy - Germany, a relatively intelligent country - is just plain retarded when it comes to energy priorities...
This is all worded as if the power companies are responsible. But they're not - it's the imbecillic freakin' Greens...
As it stands, it could be that on a particularly windy day, coal plants could have to be shut down - a MAJOR waste of money and thus efficiency.. - in order to get all the wind energy onto the grid..
Hydro-electric power is hardly perfect either btw.. See China's Three Gorges project.. Even small scale hydro power is probably nowhere near as efficient as nuclear.. Question of scale.. I.e. the energy needed to build the dams, hydro-plants, etc.., compared to the eventual energy produced, gives the efficiency - and I would wager that hydro is significantly less efficient than nuclear. Somebody google the efficiency chart...
They can be put into a kind of stand-by mode (reduced output) but this mode is even less energy efficient than keeping
them on full throttle
agree totally about the stoopid wind machines though - highly subsidised enviromental f**k ups
Furthermore, I would tend to extremism in preserving a clean environment - including saving rainforests, endangered species, etc..(war against Brazil, anyone?..)
BUT, as long as global warming is a GLOBAL problem, it's absurd for us in Germany to paying for windmills when there's no wind.. And it's a million times more absurd to be against nuclear power - which in effect will just outsource it to Poland or whatever.. Might as well have it in German engineers' hands.. And in any event, %80 of France's electricity is from nuclear - so if they have a problem, Germany has a problem.. Germans are so retarded on this issue..