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  • No, it does have a reality. The problem is that an electricity grid can collapse, due to too much electricity. However some power plants can not be easily shut down. Nuclear for example can be throttled to about 50%, but shutting it down requires a restart, which takes a day. So loosing a little money for a few hours can be cheaper then a full shut down. There are other effects, like district heating power plants, which are needed to provide heat, hydro power, which has too much water in the reservoir and waste power plants, which have to burn the waste at some point.

    Then you got to keep in mind that Finland is fairly is a country with a small population, which is rather isolated. They cut the power lines to Russia and Sweden and the Baltic countries are also low population and especially Sweden also has a lot of low carbon electricity. So export is not an easy option.




















  • Siemens Energy hat die spanische Windkraftfirma Gamesa übernommen. Das war wohl nicht die beste Idee. Zeitgleich geht der fossile Teil des Unternehmens langsam kaputt. Allerdings ist es auch der größte deutsche Hersteller von Windkraftanlagen. Nun sollen ja mehr gebaut werden und dafür braucht Siemens Energy Fabriken, muss neue Leute anstellen und so weiter. Das kostet viel Geld und man hat natürlich Angst, dass die Bundesregierung wieder Abstandsregeln oder ähnliches einführt und damit den Ausbau verlangsamt. Das könnte Siemens Energy Pleite gehen lassen, also hat der Bund vorgeschlagen entsprechende Garantien zugeben. Die sind allerdings nicht kostenlos.