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  And Sweden having to export to Germany to fill the demand
context: why the fuck am i paying 45 cents for a kwh then, jesus christ. >
  
  How would that poor RWE chairman pay for his private island otherwise? >
  
  
  While Switzerland and Austria were the main export destinations, in a notable shift Germany exported more to France than it imported as the nuclear-reliant country grappled with technical problems at its reactors that curtailed production.
  Germany's export surplus grew to 27.5 terawatt hours (TWh) compared with 20.8 TWh a year earlier, according to utility industry association BDEW - in tune with a handful of other recent comments. >
  
  It’s good to see the European energy market at work, but unfortunately Germany also had to increase burning coal to achieve that. >
  
  Only by about 7 percent compared to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year. >
  
  Germany uses Hollywood style accounting to shuffle significant lignite coal power production into its solar ledger. Takes a whole day to switch over when weather changes but they count it all as 100% solar.
  Their solar investments have been GREAT for the technology. But it's been pretty shitty for power output.
  They have spent more than California and produce a fraction of the power. Why? Simple amount of sunshine. 
  Solar in Germany is all about feelings and wishes and nothing about math. The earth is not flat.
  Put that shit in Spain and import it. Much cheaper, much more efficient.