Thursday, August 18, 2022

This German Electrical Cost Trend

 At this point (summer 2022)....the cost per kWh is 37.14 Euro cents.  How this relates to a decade ago?  It was then at 25.89 Euro cents per kWh. 

ARD covered a fair amount of this discussion in the AM today.

At the present pace of things, I would offer the humble opinion that it was be at the 40-cent point by the end of 2023.  And by 2030?  Probably 50 cents.  

If you asked most Germans about their efforts to 'cut'?  I'd suggest that half of households in the country have made an effort in the past decade to find ways to cut back on consumption.  My wife will admit that the consumption level today within our German apartment....is probably 70-percent of what it was in 2005 period.  

Oddly enough, this past month....our German electrical utility came to note how good of customers we were, and offered around fifty Euro in gifts (mostly energy monitors to tell what each device in the house is burning, or on-off electrical timer devices).

All of this chatter leading back to cost being important than clean energy?  Well....this is really where things are leading onto.  Politicians are mostly standing there in a daze because clean energy was the priority for the past two decades.  

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