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Storage is the holy grail here. That allows for more provision of wind and solar.

Storage makes the already expensive intermittent renewables even more expensive.

Germany has the highest electricity costs among the G20.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-08/strompreise-g20-deuts...

And that's with still quite a lot of coal and ever more gas in the grid, both for the plenty of times the intermittent don't deliver and for grid stability (see also: Spainout), which means we have the 3rd worst specific emissions in the EU (down from 4th worst last year), and the highest total CO₂ emissions in the EU.

After about €1 trillion spent on our "Energiewende", our "green" energy transition.

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