Good news... and bad news: "at the same time renewable energy keeps fossil electricity prices down..."
a cheap market is always full of customers! On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > > Ron wrote: > > > Of course, some policies such as feed-in-tariffs put the > > cost of migrating to green energy on the poor. > > The battle around Feed-in tariffs is especially fierce > in Germany because Germany has now so much renewable energy > that it seriously cuts into the profits of the fossil fuel > companies. Due to the "merit order effect", solar electricity > keeps electricity prices down during the day when the > fossil fuel industry usually made the highest profits with > expensive peaking electricity. Feed-in tariffs raise the > electricity bills of families by about 4 cents per kWh > (Oekostromumlage), but I have seen studies saying that > at the same time renewable energy keeps fossil electricity > prices down by a similar amount simply because it prevents > the fossil fuel generators from charging their exorbitant > peak electricity prices. Feed-in tariffs also are sources > of income for many private households in Germany, and they > have spawned a vibrant renewable energy industry which has > created many jobs. The claim that it "puts the cost of > migrating to green energy on the poor" is a talking > point of the fossil fuel lobby and you will also find > it in some economic papers, but many experts disagree > with this. > > Hans G Ehrbar > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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