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Germany’s tiny renewables costs
Nov 25th, 2013 at 2:21pm
 
The Germans are at it again

Tiny Small Little Surcharge Costs in Germany


Nov 16 2013 Published by Karl-Friedrich Lenz

This interesting and beautiful graph was recently published by the German Renewable Energy Agency (Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien). It shows the increases of energy costs per month for the average German household from 2000 on. The tiny, small, barely visible violet part at the top is the cost of the feed-in tariff surcharge.

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We see an increase in surcharge costs of EUR 14 per month from 2000 to 2013. But at the same time, other costs of electricity increased even more (by EUR 25 a month).

And the cost of heating oil increased by EUR 66, the cost of gasoline by EUR 53 a month. In comparison, the cost of the surcharges is rather small.

In total, energy costs increased from EUR 198 a month to EUR 356, or by EUR 158. The surcharge costs are less than ten percent of that.

Most of the cost increases come from the fact that the oil price has gone up by a factor of five in that decade. I expect more of the same in the future.

That of course means that in the long term it is much cheaper to have a fast transition to renewable than a slow one, even if the costs of the present speed were substantial, which they are not.
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Reply #1 - Nov 25th, 2013 at 8:39pm
 
This year, German consumers will pay a total of €20 billion for power from wind, solar panels and biomass — of which a staggering €17 billion is subsidy.

Earlier this year, BASF decided to build a new ammonia plant in the US because the American shale gas boom, which caused electricity costs to plummet and hence an industrial rebirth in the rustbelt states. Last Tuesday week Hariolf Kottmann, who runs BASF’s Swiss competitor Clariant, said he no longer had any reason ‘to invest a penny’ in Germany: ‘We had two or three projects planned. Now we prefer to invest in the United States.’ He said the renewable levy the firm was paying for its factory in Frankfurt-Höchst had almost doubled since 2011 — making energy twice as expensive as in China and America. And yes, he mentioned those two countries in the same breath.

As German companies know, things could be about to get worse. Germany has so far exempted manufacturing companies from most of their renewable subsidies. The European Commission has launched an investigation, and may now declare that this amounts to an unlawful state subsidy. If the exemption is removed, BASF says it would expect to pay an extra €400 million a year just for Ludwigshafen — a total which will, of course, only rise. A further 300 German manufacturing companies get the exemptions. What’s the point of eurozone bailouts if German industry, which survived the great recession so well, collapses?
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9078561/the-real-energy-scandal/
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Reply #2 - Nov 25th, 2013 at 9:17pm
 
My prediction - German industry will not collapse. Let's see if I'm right.
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Reply #3 - Nov 25th, 2013 at 10:59pm
 
As long as they continue to be exempt.
If not, they will move elsewhere like BASF. And if jobs go elsewhere, there will be a much smaller pool of German workers to pay the taxes to cover 17 Billion euros worth of subsidies for every 20 billion euro worth of green energy.


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Reply #4 - Nov 26th, 2013 at 5:43am
 
Put it this way - German ingenuity as always will fix the problem and they will still come out on top with regards to renewable energy. One thing about Germany is that they actually have a government that is eminently capable of governing. Overall the benefits of renewable energy far outweigh the inevitable minor snags. 

I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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Reply #5 - Nov 26th, 2013 at 6:15am
 
Yes, if that's all there was to it.
However, they are carrying sub-Alpine Europe already. Weakening Germany further is costly to a lot of others as well.
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Reply #6 - Nov 26th, 2013 at 6:47am
 
Soren wrote on Nov 26th, 2013 at 6:15am:
Yes, if that's all there was to it.
However, they are carrying sub-Alpine Europe already. Weakening Germany further is costly to a lot of others as well.


LOL. Germany has a massive customer base in Southern Europe. You should see the number of Mercedes and BMWs on the Autostradas. Anything they do in Southern Europe is in the best interests of Germany. It's called monetary hegemony. They are world experts at it.

Gottverdammt - the Greeks are revolting and the Euro is...... going down.  Hmmm - I wonder what a low Euro will do for German exports. What's the optimal solution here?

Maybe we could incite a few riots in NZ?
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