My German wife brought up this business story yesterday....it's been on my mind.
German machinist grumbling to a journalist. He had a normal day-schedule job....couple hundred folks in the company. As the nuclear plants were shutting down in Germany, and the Ukraine-Russia war started.....with natural gas halted....power issues came up.
So his company was given this cost projection.....that running everything in the plant on the normal day schedule (electrical-wise)....would cost x-amount extra...mostly because daytime rates for business operations surged up. So if they went to using power after 9PM....they'd get a cheaper (better rate).
The company made a decision....running a night shift with most employees. They got used to it.
As DST came around....more solar provided power to the grid.....so the charges for grid hours changed, and required a change in the schedule. The workers grumbled but accepted situation.
The understanding of politicians to this 'arrangement'? I doubt that they understand how things had to be modified....to make the company competitive. There's probably a thousand examples like that....where people had to give something to keep the operation going.
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