There are public recommendations emerging that, during clouded periods like in the recent weeks, when solar panels aren’t working, the electricity supply in Germany should be substantially reduced. This would help reduce the skyrocketing prices when the supply is low, they claim. Agora Industrie and Agora Energiewende, two radical Green think tanks, propose to tie consumption entirely to the weather, keeping prices low by reducing consumption when the Sun isn’t shining. Neither think tank mentions that the main price driver is not consumption, but the speculative trading at the electricity exchange in Leipzig (which should be shut down as a first step to real improvement).
According to the “experts,” large subsidies for heavy users of electricity, such as for energy-intensive production, no longer fit into the era of renewable energies. In the future, the credo is that electricity should be consumed when it is generated.
