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by immibis 1064 days ago
The actual cost of renewable energy is barely relevant. What is relevant is that German energy politics has been dominated by Russian oligarchs who want nothing more than to sell Germany as much natural gas as possible. This high cost is not the cost of renewables, because they don't have any - it's the cost of non-renewables meant to be sourced from Russia, and the cost of replacing those with non-Russian sources or Russian laundered sources.