Why Europe’s Energy Crisis is Getting Worse

[@TLDRnewsEU]

NOTE: Some commenters have suggested that Europe isn't experiencing a particularly colder winter. While it’s true that this winter has so far been relatively mild, at least in some European countries, according to the EIA , temperatures in Europe (and especially Central Europe) are in fact projected to fall quite a bit, and the first few months 2025 are due to be colder than average. (www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63804)

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

This winter was WAAAAAAAAAY colder than the winter of 2022/23 and also MUCH colder than the winter of 2023/24. Luckily for me, my country doesn't use Russian gas and also electricity bills here are so very cheap.

[@DanielSmith-bt2cb]

While the winter so far has been mild, Europe has been under the prolonged influence of a high pressure system that has kept winds extremely light and caused near constant cloudiness. Minimal wind or solar power as a result.

[@Just_another_Euro_dude]

@@DanielSmith-bt2cb Winter was maybe mild in your part of Europe. Europe is a big place. Southeastern Europe experienced the "real winter" after many MANY years. A continent is no place to generalise things.

[@Константин-к8э]

​Дюппельфриц, "низкие цены" - это какие? 40 центов за 1 кВт?

[@OchNe926]

Honestly, TLDR has turned into a "blame-game channel" - in order to distract from the UK's big problems? E.g. Norway is considering cutting the electricity link to the UK, too. You didn't even mention the massive German investments in its core hydrogen network & (green) hydrogen production in e.g. Canada, replacing LNG from late 2025 onwards etc. Instead, the UK's reliance on (French) nuclear power plants in the UK will lead to rising energy costs, with skyrocketing construction & maintenance costs, according to the FT ("UK nuclear plant hit by new multiyear delay and could cost up to £46bn", "Britain’s flagship Hinkley Point C nuclear plant has been delayed until 2029 at the earliest, with the cost spiralling to as much as £46bn, in the latest blow to a project at the heart of the country’s long-term energy plans. .."). Did you EVER mention that?

[@maxlar0ur]

Macron on the thumbnail is incredibly misleading, France is one of the best placed European countries in regards to energy sovereignty and might even stand to gain from the crisis. Great channel though thank you for what you do!

[@RetroRadianceLight]

Yeah, unlike Germany and many other western countries like the US, France is leading the way for the future of efficient non fossil fuel energy in the form of nuclear power.

[@cugeltheclever3766]

Macron is defacto leader of the eu

[@E.Wolfdale]

Totally agree, the failure-man Scholz should be pasted here, he shut down nuclear power plants when facing an energy crisis. lololololo

[@zesky6654]

​@E.Wolfdale Sholtz has had a very short tenure, he isn't responsible for decades of bad policy.

[@moonshinei]

@@E.WolfdaleScholz tried to delay their closure, the Greens and CDU pushed it through

[@editorrbr2107]

Who knew that outsourcing your entire energy supply to geopolitical tyrants of uncertainty loyalty was a terrible idea?!

[@baronvonjo1929]

You technically shouldn't even rely on allies these days. Every nation but be self sufficient.

[@nateghast6456]

@@baronvonjo1929 You are correct, but smaller nations have no choice. That being said, Germany has no excuse.

[@dax354able]

well its the cheapest though

[@ahshari]

Do you mean the US is a "geopolitical tyrant"??

[@Fab666.]

It was an excellent idea. Cold War ended, and Europe got a Russian petrol station through Ukraine in 1991. Bought 30 years of peace through trade, using a similar strategy that finally brought peace between European countries at the dawn of the Eu project. Peace through trade works

Gotta love nuclear fearmongering.

[@oceanwave4502]

It's too late for Germany to get back to Nuclear. Their whole supply chain, talents in such regard has vanished after decades of neglecting this. Of course, they can throw in a lot of money to get it working. But expect it to be extremely costly.

[@danuk500]

It amazes me how the green zealots would rather dirty coal over nuclear power. And I thought they actually wanted to reduce carbon emissions...Perhaps they're paid by the fossil fuel industry after all...

[@venetoaward]

I wonder who pushes that and reminds me of M5S party in italy pushing to stop gas pipelines from Azerbaijan a few years ago

[@mohammedsarker5756]

@@lukasweishaupt2708 Bro did you watch the video or not?! You need the baseload power, cheap power means crap if you can't get it whenever you need it. Nuclear is expensive because of red tape and waste can be recycled.

[@bear.b]

@@lukasweishaupt2708 nuclear energy is clean but stable which is why many countries are planning to build new plants. And it's expensive to build but very inexpensive to produce and manage. As for the waste it's negligible because of how dense nuclear power is. On average, the waste from a reactor supplying a person’s electricity needs for a year would be about the size of a brick. Only 5 grams of this is high-level waste - about the same weight as a sheet of paper. The generation of electricity from a typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power station, which would supply the needs of more than a million people, produces only three cubic metres of vitrified high-level waste per year, if the used fuel is recycled. In comparison, a 1,000-megawatt coal-fired power station produces approximately 300,000 tonnes of ash and more than 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, every year. Waste from coal plants is also radioactive.

[@lasikreiser561]

Germany became the stick in a bike wheel meme.

[@sizanogreen9900]

well, we basically always were a clown country for the last two decades or so, I'd say basically since Merkel. It is just that now it is becoming more and more easy to see.

[@Chrissy717]

You can thank our conservatives for that. Our greens complained for over a decade that reliance on Russian gas makes no sense. We shouldn't be reliant on an authoritarian state

[@TheEinharjar]

@@Chrissy717 The greens were the ones fighting to shut down Nuclear power lmao.

[@univeropa3363]

@@Chrissy717 False. It made sense, then we decided to cut it off for a US aligned Ukraine.

[@Pixelplanet5]

@@univeropa3363 how does it make sense to make yourself 100% dependent on a dictator?

[@znail4675]

Gas exports to Germany have nothing to do with Norway and Sweden electricity prices as they don't rely on gas, but there are electricity lines between the countries and both countries exports electricity to Germany. The reason why Sweden is upset is because those lines are there to even out loads not to let Germany skip investing in power infrastructure while relying on others to pick up the slack. Sweden is also upset over Germany obstructing Sweden building new nuclear plants and that is rather rude while relying on Swedish electricity.

[@ingbor4768]

the lines are so tiny that Swedes are complaining without reason

[@zmariuz]

trust me when I say that in Norway we are not happy with the power cables to England and Germany

[@nilsekluund]

Another big problem is that a big quality of swedish electricity is produced in norden sweden with not adequate infrastructure to transport it south where all the power-hungry industries and Germany are.

[@znail4675]

@@ingbor4768 Eh, they are the reason why Swedish electricity costs more as without them so would there be no reason for prices to go up at all!

[@adherry8142]

The import of power was more to not have to boot up the more expensive Fossil power plants. When you see the Import of Power vs import of fuel we saw a sharp decline in fuel import and instead a very slight power import (as buying the power was cheaper than the gas/coal turbines that would have to go up instead)

[@jamesgrover2005]

How exactly is it a "colder than normal winter"? We had the fifth warmest december on record in the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe has been above average.

[@0ptic0p22]

europe is buying energy from INDIA INDIA is buying that from russia this is called SELLING OUT YOUR PEOPLE

[@kristijangrgic9841]

Exactly, its not

[@Thesecret101-te1lm]

Isn't this just some weird climate change thing that december seems to be warmer while jan-mar is colder? In Sweden it seems common to not have much snow in december, but still have snow in march, even though mid winter is on december 22th.

[@AnymMusic]

@@Thesecret101-te1lm pretty sure it's got to do with the slowing of the gulf stream. Cause realistically if we look at where many western and Northern European countries are located latitude-wise, it should be much much colder than the Dutch wet snow season (without taking in other factors).

[@_DeadEnd_]

@@Thesecret101-te1lm Not sure if it's related to climate change or business as usual but yeah, december generally isn't the coldest month of the year.

[@krustykrabbulus5210]

There are some inaccuracies in the video that need clarification: 1. Germany’s final nuclear phase-out was passed after the Fukushima disaster, during chanchellor merkel, not under Olaf Scholz and was a decision supported by the broad majority at that time. It was a rollback to a passed law from 2002. (It was not started 2011, like previously stated). As a result, the operators of nuclear power plants began refraining from conducting maintenance for continued operation or purchasing fuel years before the Russia-Ukraine war. 2. Germany does have the capacity to produce electricity during periods of low renewable energy generation completely in germany. However, electricity from coal and gas power plants is significantly more expensive than other imported electricity, which unfortunately increases electricity prices across the entire EU.

[@gsbeak]

2 : and generates so much C02 to increase climate change thanks to the idiotic ecologists.

[@demouser2580]

Thank you for the comment. I just wanted to make the same remarks.

[@AlphaHorst]

One mistake. The decision to phase out nuclear power had broad political support, but only around 20-30% of the population was in favour of it with 40-60% being strongly in favour of continuing the use of nuclear power.

[@BoothTheGrey]

Oh come on... please don't bother with facts. They clearly aren't interested in those.

[@AlphaHorst]

@@MarkusGebhard its a pointless investigation. First the green party openly submitted letters to the operators asking if they could continue if cleared, that was months prior to the greens "dosagreeing" with "experts" (which most say is not the case). The answere if the operators was "no that is impossible" The last NPP in germany operated till the very last momemt it could.

[@jrko0]

The current coalition didn't shut down Nuclear Power all of a sudden, this was already planned for like 10 years ago, the current coalition just executed the plan. Saying the Ample did this is exactly what the CDU wants everyone to think

[@ingbor4768]

It was CDU who lead the process to shutdown the nuclear power

[@randomgermandude-x1o]

@jrko0 thank you. That’s absolutely correct

[@Jajalaatmaar]

You're right, it's just the German people being stupid and manipulated by Russia ever since Russia got scared of Europe going nuclear instead of buying their fossil fuels. And it worked.

[@suhhhy9701]

The traffic light might have stopped that, but decided not to. So everyone here is to be blamed

[@volkerr.]

Nonsens. It was a red/green coalition which had decided to phase out nuclear energy. After that it was Merkel first extending that phase and later then shorten it. The Ampel had the chance to stop that complete Nonsens. But they didn’t

[@MidWitPride]

Waiting for the problems to resolve themselves has always been the issue in Europe. Significant portion of EU's problems could had been greatly mitigated by now if we had heavily invested in fixing them the moment the problem became evident. Instead it's half measures upon half measures, until years later we are still screwed, but slightly less so when compared to if we had done nothing. I know it takes time to rearrange industry, but 34 months (since the start of 2022 phase of the war in Ukraine) is not a short time either, and we should expect results by now. Now we are getting caught our pants down by things anyone could had seen coming years ago. But I am not entirely unsympathetic to the wider issues here. EU is not an entity that can force through much of anything, but it is all a ballgame of short-term political convenience. For anything to go through it has to be a win/win situation for all, which often is not the case when doing massive strategic energy investments.

[@wvvwwvwvv]

Meanwhile migration

[@MelbourneMeMe]

FALSE. If Europe had simply "done nothing", they would still have operating nuclear and coal plants, and everything would be just dandy. It's the self sabotage, at the hands of the green energy extremists, that has lead to the current high-prices. Totally predictable, literally no one believes that renewables are, or ever were, cheaper than fossil fuels. Hilarious that TLDR don't even mention the investment in renewables (and the resulting non-investment in the fossil fuel counter-factual) as a primary cause of the price crisis, bias much? Good luck heating your house with a solar panel in -15 degrees winter y'all.

[@ryx007]

​@@wvvwwvwvvYeah definitely, it'll be quite interesting to see how much taxpayer money flows in from just "EUROPEANS"

[@neo69121]

exactly this is not surprising event we had anticipated exactly this but seems like brussels is busy with other more important events then energy independence in eur

[@oceanwave4502]

EU is trying to get their own house in order, sooner or later, but is the world waiting for them to stabilize? (I mean: competition in economics/science/tech/manufacturing)

[@stein-arne6613]

3:13 high energy prices in Norway have nothing to do with high gas export to Germany, but better power export capacity of electricity, they can buy norwegian hydropower. Norway have never used a lot of natural gas.

[@ronald3836]

These high energy prices are really a big win for Norway and Sweden. It's just that consumers -- well, those on variable contracts -- pay the price (I guess because Sweden and Norway have to participate in the EU electricity market, so electricity providers have to charge their own consumers the same high prices). Norway and Sweden can probably simple compensate people if that becomes necessary.

[@Sander-s8v]

​@@ronald3836 My man, norway is selling 90% of its energy domestically. Thia only benefits the energy oligarchy while affecting you average man aswell as drastically reducing competetiveness for business and industry. And the prices are imported from germany. Yet we only sell 10% of energy to europe, make it make sense

[@stefannolte9470]

​@@Sander-s8vthose few price spikes were not due to a lack of generating capacity, nor the natgas generation costs, but rather a market failure and suspected market manipulation (currently under investigation by the German energy agency). Regarding the protection of Nordic consumers, in Spain and Portugal we had a mechanism to avoid the effect of price spikes caused by the European marginal pricing mechanism / merit order. More grid connections should be built, but with profits trickeling down to the common people.

[@ronald3836]

@@Sander-s8v Sure, but the point is more money is coming into Norway. Now it is up to the government to redistribute it.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

@@Sander-s8vIf the government were to own the electricity utilities as seen in France, that would benefit all taxpayers. Alas…

[@Cloud_Seeker]

From Sweden here. Gotta say I don’t agree that the winter is colder this year. It has barely been negative here. A few days ago there it was 7 degrees. I remember when the winters used to be -15 or so. This is so far not even a winter. It is only just now the snow has showed itself, so it finally can become a winter.

[@friedrichvonhoffmeister3343]

Our energy grids cant even handle the mildest of winters i think tldr is trying to cover that. Ive been in brussels berlin amd croatia and everywhere its been mild.

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

Compared to the past two years it does seem more nippy. Nothing compared to longer ago, that's true.

[@vencik_krpo]

That depends a lot on location. I'm Czech and it does feel like this winter is colder. No snow, but it's freezing a lot more than the previous winter. Why, my car's windshield wash fluid froze in the tank yesterday night... I also remember harder winters, but that's like 20-30 years ago.

[@arbor3612]

That's heavily subjective. You might not feel like like this winter is cold at all, but for other parts of Europe the temperature was and can be below 0 degrees.

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

It’s minus 5 where I am in Sweden right now. But that’s not very cold by our standards. If you live up north even minus 15 isn’t considered cold as it can get to minus 40. But the weather can be very different compared to the continent. I remember there was a heat wave last year or the year before in Europe while it was pretty cold here. The issue is that our prices gets affected by the troubles on the continent. We produce more energy than we use but prices are affected by t Germany especially in the south. In Northern Sweden it’s still very cheap as they aren’t directly connected to Germany. It’s not uncommon for prices to be near 0 in the north because of all the hydro power there. But because we have a 4 zone grid it doesn’t benefit us in the south. Germany has a unified energy market so prices are more spread.

[@christophersolheim-allen8585]

Norway uses very little of its gas for domestic power production; the country is 90% hydro. Norwegian electricity prices are very high because electrical interconnectors have been installed to Europe and UK; Norwegians are competing with European electrical consumers.

[@strigoiu13]

prices are higher there so everyone wants to sell to the higher bidder, raising prices at home as a consequence...

[@BruderTux]

This video is poorly researched and fails to address how pricing of electricity works. Electricity for both industrial and home use is actually cheaper at the moment in Germany than before the war.

[@TheJohdu]

exactly. maybe TLDR should try to consult experts while doing such videos. the part on CNG is also very misleading, since Germany has actually reduced it's demand. but they've gotten 55% of their natural gas demand before through the eastern see pipelines. if that expires naturally prices in Norway will rise because of higher demand in an european market. nuclear was a one figure fraction of Germany's total energy demand before it was phased out ultimately. so that whole argument makes no sense either.

[@CarlMartin-hw3ev]

It probably depends upon what you are smoking, right ?

[@reheyesd8666]

It also fails to see shutting down the pipes was a planned event. Likely the Americans will just fill the gap.

[@strigoiu13]

@@CarlMartin-hw3ev electricity is maybe cheaper as a median, but electricity is just a part of it...without cheap gas or at least cheaper or equal to that in USA or China, the german industry can not compete from home and it is forced in make investments in factories in cheaper areas of the world...

[@nath9091]

Source? Clean Energy Wires graph shows energy prices at eur4 or so until late 2021 when they started spiking and are now over eur6 since the war.

[@dhfconst]

Macron on the thumbnail is just wrong and misleading!

[@brightgoldstar]

The thumbnail is not because of France's nuclear energy, which is great. Macron is on the thumbnail because he is the most famous/well-known European leader, as a sort of representative of Europe. They usually put him on the thumbnail regarding Europe matters.

[@dhfconst]

@brightgoldstar well, I don't agree with that POV nether. France/Macron is not the correct face for this problem, Germany is!

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[@Bengt.Lueers]

7:10 Ending the european electricity market and grid is a very bad idea for many reasons. I understand populists are pushing for it, because it relatively easy to misunderstand. However, it can also be easily rectified: As a statistical effect, the larger powergrid will always be more stable, reliable and resilient. Compare other power systems like Japan, UK or the US for reference. You will find that the attractive sounding energy autarcy in practice leads to worse user experience than interconnectedness.

[@ingbor4768]

Exactly. The european electricity market can replace the need for storage Your point is valid: populists follow the Russian directives. But the video authors are not populists. What they are? Paid propagandists working for Russia?

[@marjiusmarjius1722]

Nah that’s bullshit. You are just a German that knows that you’re screwed when we other Europeans no longer give our electricity to you

[@BosonCollider]

The issue is Germany neglecting its own production and bidding up energy prices in the entire European grid. If energy prices climb by 10x in energy-producting countries, there needs to be some kind of circuit breaker where you just cut consumption in the irresponsible grid. An energy export tax proportional to the energy price that is zero under typical conditions would help.

[@Bengt.Lueers]

@BosonCollider That is a horrible idea. We have a free pan-european energy market exactly to price these situations. Cutting off countries in high-demand situations would lead to costly over capacity all the time instead of them/Germany paying a premium seldomly. The free market is best at determining who can cut consumption the easiest and who can ramp up production the cheapest all the time, but especially in high-price situations.

[@haakonah]

@@Bengt.Lueers Industry develops in Scandinavia due to low energy prices, but many other factors like abundance of skilled labor and good infrastructure are not there. If we were to construct a perfect energy market, with equal prices over the whole of Europe, the industry would under free market arguments likely leave our Scandinavia until wages were severely reduced here. How would that be something we in Scandinavia would gain from? I think it's more subtle than you present it because the sharing of profits from energy sales will always be far less evenly distributed than the sharing of profits from factories with many employees.

[@b0b303]

The previous coalition phased out nuclear not the the current one. The current one just executed the phase out.

[@gesilsampaioamarantesegund6692]

And did not reverse this policy...

[@Pixelplanet5]

not even executed the phase out, they even extended the run times of 3 reactors until the fuel ran out.

[@brianjonker510]

As if the current administration could not take a pause in closing down the remaining plants.

[@AzrethK9]

@@brianjonker510 They couldn't, the reactors where out of maintenance and fuel. It's like trying to drive a car that hadn't oil changed in years and an empty tank. It would have taken years and millions to get them up to code and fueled up. We don't need them anyway. We need a better grid and peak storage.

[@emken0206]

​@@gesilsampaioamarantesegund66922 things are infinte: the universe and the stupidity of mankind. Phasing out nuclear in 2001 was a mistake, reversing that decision would be an even bigger mistake so please stop spewing nonsense around.

[@NuSpirit_]

Glad my country (Slovakia) despite the faults it has, has bet on nuclear power. Having 2x 471MW Bohunice plant reactor and currently 3x 471MW Mochovce plant with fourth 471MW reactor under finishing touches, plus planning another 2 reactors for Bohunice plant somewhere between 600 and 1600 MWe, we have very low-to-almost-no-emission power generation. Coal plants are shut off and only gas plants remain in reserves when needed. Rest of it is via Nuclear, Hydro or Renewables. And we are exporter of electricity now.

[@SapereAude1490]

Sell it to us idiots to Austria. Can't believe we built one and never opened it.

[@0ptic0p22]

europe is buying energy from INDIA INDIA is buying that from russia this is called SELLING OUT YOUR PEOPLE

[@markotrieste]

So why is Fico desperately clinging on russian gas?

[@FonFreeze]

Thats great. Then why stabbing in back EU brothers and supporting Russia?

[@MrHerych]

@@markotrieste he is putin's pet

[@ziaddakroub]

Who could have imagined that closing all of your Nuclear reactors during a period of looming energy crisis would creat problems?

[@AustrianPainter14]

Or torching your own pipeline

[@matthiashesse1996]

The nuclear reactors were being shut down years before the (2nd) russian invasion of Ukraine and the remaining three would not make a big difference, the high cost is entirely due to reliance on russian gas and high gas prices.

Can we stop repeating this nuclear reactor crap? They were literally a drop in the bucket.

[@ziaddakroub]

@@matthiashesse1996 when the invasion started in Early 2022, Nuclear in the German energy mix was about 11%. While the German government was aware of the difficulties that making up for these 11% would pose in the context of strained gas supplies, they pressed on. This is how, by the end of 2022, the share of Nuclear energy dropped to 6% and later to 1.4% in 2023. To make up for Nuclear, Germany resorted at best to the more polluting and faaaar more costly LNG by developing its port LNG conversion facilities, a very expensive investment. That’s when they’re not using the expensive and VERY polluting coal. So yes, it does count, it’s not just a KZbin obsession.

[@HitPoint19]

6% nuclear at the scale of Germany was anything but a drop, you daff dingleberry. You could power 12 MILLION households with that

[@JoachimUnbekannt]

There is no energy crisis in Europe. There are sufficient reserve power plants available that have not previously been used because there was enough energy available. Short-term high energy prices on the spot market say nothing about the amount of energy available.

[@ruben34]

We are Europeans, we will get through this and we will come out stronger and with a better system in place, a more independent system, one that focus on clean power and geopolitical friendly power.

[@Anthony-w2z5z]

Sorry Pal, but Europes heading into recession now, and everybody,s broke. (but keep those happy thoughts)

[@markthrekrain8037]

We've never been geopolitically friendly. We have fed on colonialism. Europe without Africa's resources is in crumbles.

[@alenygam6048]

One thing I notice is that most European countries learnt nothing from the energy crisis of the 1970s, when the arab countries blocked export of petroleum products to Europe, they just switched suppliers from those arab countries to Russia. The only country that seems to have learnt something from that is France, which has a strong civilian nuclear power program, and is mostly independent on the energy front. If all EU countries acted together without demonizing nuclear power we'd be in a better situation right now, but hey, as long as our policies are reactive instead of proactive, we will keep getting into those situations.

[@doublehelix7880]

There is a small detail that you are missing. France got kicked out of Niger and there is no more Uranium with 90% discount of the market price.

[@emken0206]

Ah yes the really independent France thats fiercely opposes EU sanctions on Russian uranium I wonder why.

[@alenygam6048]

@@doublehelix7880 I don't know how correct you are about the "90% discount on market price" figure, but yes, I can see your point. France imports Uranium from various countries throughout the world, and Niger at the time of the coup wasn't even the biggest supplier. By having a diversified import network, an instability in any one country won't cause much disruption to the energy production in the country. Achieving that with nuclear power is much easier, since Uranium has incredibly high energy density compared to other fuel sources (such as Natural Gas, Oil and Coal). This means that no dedicated infrastructure is needed to transport Uranium effectively, which is needed instead for Natural Gas and Oil (Pipelines). Also Nuclear power has been shown by their civil program to be incredibly safe, cheap and effective at reducing the carbon footprint of electricity production.

[@doublehelix7880]

@alenygam6048 Niger was the main source for U for France because of the price. Now they are forced to buy it at market prices. And yes, the 90% discount is not a myth. You can google for more information about this. The loss of the cheap Uranium is a big hit for France as the enrichment technology they use is membrane diffusion that consumes x50 more energy compared to the Russian centrifuge tech. As you can figure, this is going to make the fuel price a lot more expensive.

[@doo0ni]

you forgot the nuclear powerplants barely working in the summer due to little cooling water having france needing to import massive amount of electricity from countries like Germany. only reason its not brought up that much is because energy is cheap in summer. if anything happens in winter to nuclear power or of countries like china decide to cut supply france is screwed without renewables and will drive up European prices too. Germany rn is in a transition phase which will see prices go down in the future for them while France will likely only see prices going up even with heavy state investment (which is why france can even use nuclear bc the government subsideses it)

[@iljagaimovic9166]

I think the main problem is People have huge misunderstanding what is "Gas" and how it is used in manufacturing and in energy production... Comment section proves it XD I honestly think people need more education Energy topic, to understand what is happening XD

[@ImperativeGames]

Some guy here seriously thinks Germany should switch to geothermal energy... People are poorly educated.

[@loeffelm]

Fun fact 1: France’s net power exports in 2024 reach 22-year high (89TWh) Fun fact 2: electricity prices in France are set to fall by up to 14% in February 2025

[@ingbor4768]

France tax payers are subsidizing the German imports😛

[@yapisaiah5307]

kinda insane that even after the 2022 invasion of ukraine which raised tensions heavily, germany still cut out nuclear energy and relies more heavily on foreign energy supply. you would think they would turn back old policies and focused on energy independence rather than completely cutting it out.

[@kevinkerkhoff6670]

They phased out the last 3 reactors which isn't that much in the great scheme of things. Turning back to nuclear would also take years, so not a solution in the immediate future. Lastly nuclear is not energy independent. It also needs fuel in the form of uranium which you have to get from somewhere too.

[@andrasbiro3007]

The usual question arises: Stupidity or corruption? Well, in this case it'd be more like treason.

[@soltysss]

@@kevinkerkhoff6670 it's pretty much independent cause you need a very small amount of it and can buy it from variety of sources, shipping is not a problem here. Heck, you can even invest into Ukraine and make fuel there cause it also has uranium ore.

[@notusneo]

​@@andrasbiro3007 yes

[@KiffgrasConnaisseur]

It´s not. It´s a simple math equation. The reactors got long shut down, all the expertise has left the country a good decade ago, they have no relevant fuel sources for nuclear energy... It just doesn´t make sense for them. They´d just need to change policies, rn it can take more than 6 years to get a single wind turbine approved. Also this is not incompetence, it´s deliberate action by the politicians who went full in on LNG and the Saudi connection. This is planned dependency.

[@Tathagatchat]

Sitting in Oslo and saw the video. Checked electricity prices and realised the prices are going up. Shut down the heating even though temperature outside feels like -11 C

[@inbb510]

Guess the Norwegians are quite rich so they can bare the brunt of the rise in prices?

[@editorrbr2107]

@@inbb510Norway is energy independent and has decoupled its economy from global energy demand. They had a plan 50 years ago, put it in place, and it’s paying off in spades. The Wegies are much less sensitive to global demand crunches and have a far reduced need for import transmissions.

[@dennisaskeland5870]

​​@@inbb510everything in Scandinavia is run by electricity, including cars and heating. Our core businesses are energy intensive. Cheap power being our only advantage. Why should Norway kill its own industry and break its own people because Germans dont like to produce viable energy. We are not even part of the EU.

[@kohtalainenalias]

Finland is facing hard times also: only banks and energy firms celebrate astronimical profits while middle class suffers

[@Tathagatchat]

@@inbb510 Norwegian govt is bearing the brunt. After the price crosses a limit, the govt pays part of it. As such, Govt is now thinking of re-negotiating the contract with Europe for energy sharing.

[@MrRxc94]

god bless eu we have to stay together ❤❤love from spain

[@stiofain88]

🇮🇪🤝🇪🇸

[@jesuisla2818]

🇫🇷🤝🇪🇸

[@FNK-1401]

🇲🇦🫱🏾‍🫲🏽🇪🇸

[@Red-Check-Mark]

😂😂😂 You guys are so divided that it makes America look United.

[@stiofain88]

@@Red-Check-Mark Is that so? Did ye work out what ye think a woman is yet?

[@emp437]

How is this winter cold? This is the warmest winter in like 5 years here in Germany...

[@Aphanvahrius]

It's similar here in Poland. I haven't really noticed it being any colder and there was definitely a much longer period of relatively warm weather than usual.

[@ikt123]

they are preparing for it it says: By the end of the week, temperatures across Europe will drop sharply as low-pressure areas move across the region. Gas prices are going up, according to Bloomberg. According to Weather Services International, on Friday and Saturday, January 4 and 5, the average temperature in London, Paris, and Berlin will be below zero, which is about 6 degrees below the 30-year average.

[@roughdude6575]

Same in Belgium, Pretty mild. We'll reach 10°c in a few days. Also, my energy provider have already decreased my monthly energy bills a few months ago.

[@interru_io]

Well this channel is increasingly posting incorrect information and I suspect that they are doing propaganda. The energy prices also didn't rise. I'm paying now as much as I payed before the invasion.

[@Aphanvahrius]

@@ikt123 Average temperature below zero... In January... In Berlin... And that's considered abnormally cold? My God, and some people still say deny the climate is getting warmer...

[@nEsniAi]

Germany deciding to get rid of nuclear energy after the Japanese tsunami. Pro-move.

[@SebastianLarsen]

2011 was an interesting year for fans of science in Germany. Tsunami caused 0 deaths but Germany shuts down nuclear in response. Organic bean sprouts in German supermarkets kills dozens and hospitalized thousands and Germany ups support for organic. Truly there is some magical thinking going on in the land of Rudolf Steiner.

[@High56278]

And it wad a mistake, look at France they probably will be the least harmed country by the energy crisis in Europ because they spend on nuclear energy

[@MelbourneMeMe]

They literally ramped up the use of coal to account for the loss of energy supply from nuclear. Brown coal at that, the dirtiest of coals. In Australia, my home country, there is currently a lot of political talk about building nuclear plants for the first time, not sure if it will actually get the go ahead. We have a lot of available renewable energy and fossil fuels, yet energy prices are stupidly high. It's probably down to the privatization of the energy grid more than anything else.

[@neptune1525]

How many times are ya'll gonna comment the same thing, we get it by now

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

​@@neptune1525 until this stupid decision is reversed.

[@barcster2003]

This is why you dont rush to green and rely on Russia. The fact they still buy from russia despite invasion is crazy.

[@DerSpeggn]

I really dont know what to say... cold winter? We not even once had negative degrees this whole winter. Its all 3 - 10°C... when it should be -3 to -10.... I personally think the problem is more that basically all energy providers have increased their profits drastically. Its not that we do not have enough gas. But any shortage is a pretext to raise prices. And to keep them there even if the supply is good again. I think its not down to there not being enough energy to be the reason for high prices. I think its a) kept artificially at the edge of sustainability and b) the fact that almost all energy providers are for profit, thus maximising this profit by any means neccecary. They know they have the continent by the balls, and shamelessly use this fact.

[@friedrichvonhoffmeister3343]

Our energy grids cant even handle the mildest of winters i think tldr is trying to cover that. Ive been in brussels berlin amd croatia and everywhere its been mild

[@piellamp]

Lng is just more expensive in general then gas going through a pipeline which ended just this year

[@peacem8574]

I still remember the smug german politicians laughing at Trump warning them not to buy russian gas and to be too dependant on the russians.

[@oadka]

because reality is they have no alternate plan....as you can see till now

[@emken0206]

Why would that made a difference? Germanys economy grew in the last decade fueled by cheap russian energy without that there would be the exact same problems (no economic growth and high energy prices) as today just over a decade earlier.

[@TenOfTwenty]

Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden all warned them about this.

[@reheyesd8666]

Except there is alternatives, Russia isn't the only oil and gas exporter in the world. Venezuela is the biggest (or second) oil and gas reserves in the world. We can buy from them, their people are suffering terribly.

[@karry299]

@@reheyesd8666 That's until USians institute another regime change in Venezuela and raise the prices, so Europe has no choice but to be a slave.

[@Bengt.Lueers]

5:35 You are framing Germany's behavior injustly. Germany is not required by technical or contractual means to produce enough energy for itself. The trans-european energy grid is intended for and functioning well in transporting energy across country borders. As you stated, Germany has been a net exporter of electricity for decades, which is also fine.

[@ObiWanKeighobi]

I'm surprised Germany has been exporting for so long with such a large internal demand. With the transition to renewables and France's nuclear fleet going strong, exporting coal electricity was never going to be sustainable.

[@editorrbr2107]

Because for decades it was burning coal.

[@derradfahrer5029]

@@editorrbr2107 and it still would, if not for the rising CO2 Certificates Price, making it more expensive than other generation options.

[@Sulandir_]

@@ObiWanKeighobi Ah yes, France nuclears fleet going strong, like last summer, when the rivers dried up and they had to shut down those plants, while importing electricity from Germany? Europe as a whole is a shit show when it comes to energy. France demanding Nuclear should be labeled as "green", while Germany says this is only to be done if Gas is labeled as Green as well.

[@DerDop]

I remember watching a debate on euro news vs a French energy expert and a German Green Party member. The French dude was simply mocking Germany’s energy policies, especially the closing of nuclear plants. I’ll let you say who was right

[@AlphaHorst]

French like to deflect Anyone who started mocking Germany energy plans past 2021 is just an idiot jumping onto a train of stupidity If you started around 2014/15 it is a different story but back the the French considered it a decent plan. So yea the French ahoudl shut up

[@EchoObserver9]

[Laughs in French!]

[@padriandusk7107]

Are we laughing tho? Our nuclear energy prices has spiked because EU decided to make us sell it for nothing to "competitors", since French nuclear sector is heavier than any other in EU. It means basically letting rotten companies buying cheap french nuclear energy, selling it twice or thrice to price to make profits while creating nothing in return.....and the French energy bills are unsanely expensive now. Not to mention risks of not having enough energy because we have to sell it to OTHERS. Thanks Germany. Great job at making yourself hated. That was OUR JOB!

[@EchoObserver9]

@@padriandusk7107 If that true then...That is a bullshit trade that needs to be corrected... I will cope by basking in the fact that now les allemands nous sont redevables !

[@AlphaHorst]

@padriandusk7107 amazingly everything you said is wrong French imported massive amounts of energy for cheap due to the EU and avoided mass blackouts just last year so maybe, just maybe get a brain

[@seanlander9321]

Why won’t the Europeans contract with Australia for LNG, it’s the world’s most reliable supplier? Please don’t say it’s distance, because Russian icebreakers are needed to brink their LNG to Europe which makes the journey longer.

[@LarthV]

But apparently not so much longer that it is not much cheaper still to by from Russia…

[@Silver_Prussian]

Uhh its not the journey isnt longer than from australia the arctic route is literlay the future of transport of goods.

[@seanlander9321]

@Silver_Prussian 🙄

[@Silver_Prussian]

@@seanlander9321 do you know how far australia is ? The rout from the arctic to lets say norway or the netherlands is far shorter

[@seanlander9321]

@ Do you not understand how reliable a supplier Australia is? Energy security is about price and reliability. The Arctic can freeze to the point that no shipping gets through, even the shipping that does equals the time taken from Australia. Russia isn’t a reliable supplier of energy, and that’s the problem the Europeans cant seem to get their heads around, but generally speaking they have a tradition of intellectual deficiency when it comes to security unlike the Japanese who have ended all dealings with the Russians to rely on Australian LNG.

[@ABTrainsYT]

Luckily the UK has plenty of wind, we have more of that than we do sun 😂

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

If only blow-hard politicians could power a wind farm, you'd be set for life!

[@leakyabstraction]

They should have developed rain energy I reckon 🥹

[@WDaland]

The Netherlands for decades was one of Europe's main gas suppliers through the massive Groningen field in the north of the country. But gas production there has been cut to a minimum in recent years to limit seismic risks in the region, and is going to be shut down.

[@peterfireflylund]

And those seismic “risks” were essentially zero…

[@shibaexe3384]

7:49 So we stop buying gas and oil from a warmongering nation to start buying from another warmongering nation?

[@michaelotieno6524]

Exactly.

[@SharanyoDutta-h4p]

countries controlling gas and oil resources are generally more aggressive as they can afford to be

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

What neighbors did the US invade? What land did they annex. Please tell us.

[@michaelotieno6524]

@@SelfProclaimedEmperor It invaded and annexed huge parts of Mexico (California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada) was acquired via war with Mexico. The US and proxies have invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama and Grenada.

[@shibaexe3384]

@@SelfProclaimedEmperor Afghanistan, Irak (twice), Yugoslavia (twice), and Lybia were invaded since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The invaded countries/states include the native-american tribes, Spain and Mexico. Edit: if you want a full list, Wikipedia will do it better than me, do your research.

[@Zulgrim97]

amid this energy crisis , eu leaders are starting to take morocco side in the sahara issue and pissing algeria off who can solo supply the entirety of europe with their gas needs , which i find just too fcking crazy

[@saurabhdang7307]

Closing your nuclear plant and no investment to improve nuclear technology was the biggest risk. Those who are saying purchasing Gas from Russia was a bad idea compare it to the cost that you are paying and also pay in future and its economic effects ( All of the europe is in recession) . Biggest mistake (Relying America for Security also ?)

[@Lithuanian_NAFO_lad]

Cold winter? We havent had a proper cold winter in a while. Most of December was warmer than November (at least it felt like it).

[@English_Dawn]

Happy New Year!

[@winj3r]

Germany and a few other European countries, allowing their energy market to be so dependent on Russian Gas, was such an obvious and stupid mistake. And now it's the people that is paying the consequences, while the politicians that created this mess, go away with no punishement.

[@Jochla]

Everybody knew that for decades even when the plans were made by Schröder and Fischer in the late 90s. The former finance minister Christian Lindner repeated those concerns in the German parliament in a famous speech, "aktuelle Stunde" in 2010, but none ever acted against it.

[@Jochla]

Sometimes you can just wonder how politicians can choose the worst possible option even though they know what consequences their actions will have.

[@GeorgeT96]

Europe: Lets be less dependent on Russian Gas! Also Europe: *increases imports of more expensive LNG*

[@univeropa3363]

From Russia and the US.

[@Pixelplanet5]

a necessary intermediate step as too many countries were relying on gas imports for way too long. becoming independent of that will take some time but now that Russia has proven to not be a reliable source that change will finally happen.

[@greentoby26]

Where's the contradiction? The energy has to come from somewhere, and the dependency on Russian gas was indeed reduced.

[@АнатолийПедченко-э9ф]

@@Pixelplanet5 Why is it not a reliable source? We have not refused to supply gas. Even Putin said that if you open the valve of the Nord Stream, the gas will flow freely. It's not our problem that you want to buy Russian gas from India

[@univeropa3363]

@@greentoby26 By putting other labels on it?

[@pet9838]

This is just an opportunity to build up more renewables and a lot of grid storage.

[@jeanc3167]

Remember when germany started shutting down their nuclear power plants? 👀

[@gesilsampaioamarantesegund6692]

Yes, and I wonder where would a tsunami hit Germany...

[@greentoby26]

I remember. That was 2003. Do you, though?

[@BoothTheGrey]

Remember how expensive nuclear energy was... and still is? Do you even care for details or do you just follow a brainwashing pseudo-argument you took over by your political Guru?

[@dnocturn84]

@@gesilsampaioamarantesegund6692 It was based on an analysis regarding their safety when considering all sorts of natural desasters that could potentially impact Germany and potential terrorist attacks. So a nuclear power plant has to survive a plane crashing into it. That was the actually the specific one they failed and that led to this decission.

[@gesilsampaioamarantesegund6692]

@@dnocturn84 was it that difficult to protect the nuclear power plants from airplanes so as to make most of their econony and people dependent on the gas from a nuclear power (and now another)?

[@mohammedwaheeb9325]

Thank you, America 🇺🇸 🦅🦅💥

[@mrbattleking5457]

what does america have to do with europes energy crisis?

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

@@mrbattleking5457 By imposing sanctions on Russian imports under US pressure, the EU has placed itself in a situation where its countries need to import more expensive supplies from... guess who?

[@mrbattleking5457]

@oldskoolmusicnostalgia the US never pressured EU to sanction Russia. They did it to themselves. Another thing is obvious. Why would you attempt to get stuff from your enemy during a war. Where is the common sense? Also, no one is forcing them to get from the US. Why don't they get some from Saudi Arabia or Qatar? Typical Europoors blaming all their problems on the US as if the only reason they aren't relevant is because of the US.

[@loganlove9986]

@@oldskoolmusicnostalgiaOkay, but you guys DO support Ukraine, right?? If you also want cheap Russian gas, that’s gonna make you guys look hypocritical. . . Look, I’m sympathetic to you guys’ suffering. But I don’t think you can have it both ways; supporting Ukraine while funding their enemy. As for high import costs, that’s the market taking advantage. If you don’t like American Energy, but elsewhere. Everyone is an opportunist when it comes to money, no??

[@St0rrrm]

@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia you forgot to mention that they bombed the nordstream pipelines

[@brightgoldstar]

Love the thumbnail pic 😂😂😂

[@irynaskvortsova6996]

Those are transitional processes when big-money-boys secure their capitals, immune to taxes, as for mortal ones.

[@JK-tw3ne]

What's hillarious is that India is buying records amount of oil from Russia for cheap. Inducing the cost of refining it and selling it to the U.S. for 2x the cost and then the U.S. sells that same gas to the EU for 4x the cost. America making the most money out of this deal.

[@thegreatdane3627]

natural gas is not refined from oil. It is not the same as the "gas" the americans put in their cars, the product other countries call petrol or benzin. And the price for diesel and benzin has gone up by something like 10% since 2021, at least where i live. Not sure where you get 4X the price from?

[@mryan4452]

​@@thegreatdane3627 A v quick google shows prices for natural gas in the EU has gone up about 80% from early 2021 to 2024 (from just over 6 cent to 11 cent including taxes). According to the European Commission.

[@mryan4452]

From what I have read the European energy supermajors (Shell, BP, Eni, Total etc) are the ones reaping the profits. They buy from the US and sell at far higher prices in the EU. I expect they have significant lobbying power in the EU?

[@thegreatdane3627]

@@mryan4452 yes, and the price of natural gas has gone down compared to late 2022. Did you have a point with that information, or just sharing?

[@thegreatdane3627]

@@mryan4452 what exactly are Shell and the rest buying in the US?

[@volkerr.]

Even when there is no „Dunkelflaute“, it is still way away from being sufficient. During the long and cold winter nights there’s no sun shining. And during the day it’s mostly the same.

[@LarthV]

Sure, but tbf the demand for electricity is also lower at night, when most businesses are not operating.

[@ms6149]

Wind and solar instead of nuclear energy? Brilliant idea

[@Dr.MSC.W.Krueger]

Incredibly bad at providing base load

[@volkerr.]

Germanys NLG Terminals are almost out of use. There’s almost no demand for LNG gas currently.

[@Javadamutt]

There was a post on Twitter that was linked on Reddit that stated that if we moved off fossil fuels to renewable energy, half of world shipping traffic would disappear because half of shipping is moving coal, oil and methane around the world

[@dai-belizariusz3087]

pure delusions

[@Javadamutt]

@@dai-belizariusz3087 Really? The whole, let's spend most of our energy just to move energy around rather than finding a more efficient way doesn't feel stupid? The practice sounds delusional to me

[@piereandreturner2818]

Even if that reddit claimed is true, most affected will be shipping company, most is based in Europe and North America. Natural resources mining companies will only be affected in some form but would likely remain profitable. You probably don't know how much natural resources we use in modern times. Especially natural gas and petroleum, they have such a wide range used and were used in various industry.

[@DerDop]

You have to chose between nuclear and fossil. There’s no in between

[@AlexandruVoda]

I doubt we move that much coal on ships but oil tankers are the primary way of moving oil and the only way of moving LNG which represents a growing percentage of methane. So I'm not sure if the effect would be as drastic as half of shipping traffic, but certainly world shipping trafic would drastically reduce. Some reliance on fossil fuels will however be rather difficult to get rid of (shipping, aircraft and the chemical industry). On the other hand, land-based transportation is low hanging fruit and we should transition faster.

[@qwepoi222]

Isn't the high electrical prices due to the EU's use of marginal pricing model, where the most expensive power generated (imported LNG?) sets the price for everyone? So consumers are forced to pay unreasonably high prices, while power generators with lower costs are making artificially high profits for no good reason.

[@khamuleasterling1454]

Hell no, Azerbaijan is another false friend that we european must avoid

[@adamwnt]

no it is not, they're neutral on the war and population probably even more against than pro russian and with the latest shot down of the plane things cannot go any better and since no western countries aside from the expensive North America have fuels we cannot pick and chose where to get it from based on a given government of a given country, which is still far better than russia in this case

[@strigoiu13]

for a decade that country is somehow neutral to russian influence and made close ties wih the turks that the russians could not break so in the end adapted to the regional powers in the area and abandoned armenia for azerbaijan, but aliev is no russian puppet whatsoever. but noboy there can be trusted, not even turkey and in general they do not want to be lectured on political and civil rights subjects.

[@heretowatchvidsandchill]

Wrong tbh we are mostly peaceful and our population leans towards ukraine we had a conflict with armenia it is true but we finished the conflict and our country is gonna be even more peaceful

[@aboukirvienne5352]

Anyway they sell their gas to turkey and laundered russian gas to EU.

[@Flynbourne]

Part of the issue is getting planning permits to build transmission. The planning process is a nightmare and project just sit on the shelf for years waiting to get built. It’s hopeless.

[@tahaymvids1631]

Not the biggest fan of the new jingle tbh lol

[@Shaddowkhan]

The energy companies in the Netherlands were forced to pay out and they just raised the prices the next year.

[@legendofminecraft6310]

We should invest in nuclear and renewable energy

[@ingbor4768]

they can not work together: or renewables or nuclear

[@volkerr.]

Why not? Nuclear as a base load and biomass / gas / water for the peak load. And yes… why using wind and Sun then.. 😜

[@ingbor4768]

@@volkerr. When the wind blows you can not stop the nuclear power plants

[@volkerr.]

@@ingbor4768that’s not true! Older NPPs have a problem with that. But newer generations won’t have that problem.

[@volkerr.]

Anyway in less than 50 years there won’t be any sun or wind PPs. All electricity will Come from nuclear energy for sure.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

The prices this year are not nearly as expensive thus far. They are always more expensive come the winter, but so far I think Europe is a bit traumatized. I think countries like Germany need more geothermal because it is renewable, on demand, increasingly inexpensive and technically viable in more and more places, probably most places.

[@ingbor4768]

this winter is not colder than last years, is more dry: less storms, less renewables, more fossil fuels consumption, which are expensive than renewables this video is idiot

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

this is all exogerrated, I am in Slovakia and the official data suggests we have more gas storage (and available supplies) than we'll need for this year. Electricity wise - we export electricity to neighbouring countries. Soo, there's no panic here about gas nor electricity, let me assure you brothers and sisters. The only problem that the EU faces is higher prices because we'll have to import LPG from USA instead of pipegas from Putinstan. That's that. Just waiting for the ''hydrogen valleys'' promised by Ursula VDL...and once that comes online US and Putinstan will deflate - for now these two oil fossils can flex

[@alffry5454]

Meantime, install an electric heat pump at your place, or ask your landlord to. Most households in Scandinavia have at least one. They put out 4 or 5 times the heat energy as the electrical input. Clean, cheap warm air. And it’s not slowly jilling you like gas.

[@ricardosilva-xz1yt]

NO. Europe did not find alternatives to Russia for energy. We are just using India as a midle man. Get your facts staright please.

[@karry299]

You forget that India irradiates the gas pipe with democratic particles, so the gas becomes democratic and guilt-free for European marks to buy.

[@noneofyourbusiness4830]

At the same time, Russia can only sell gas to India at low prices. The price cap sanctions are having an effect.

[@manickn6819]

Getting facts right will not suit most of the viewing audience. They just cannot see the reality several years later.

[@Angkur_chakma]

​@@noneofyourbusiness4830Not only india but also iran,China etc

[@billtwok6864]

Energy paid for with money not blood costs more. Welcome to being decent people. Most of Europe should be ashamed of itself.

[@karry299]

So USia stopped stealing Syrian oil ? News to me.

[@matteosaladino1262]

Name one EU country who don't have to Import. Blaming Germany importing recourses. Thats my humor.

[@zrogon]

Except... there is no crisis, and the prices are seasonal. Temperatures are high, no real winter in sight. Drama for nothing.

[@tomduke1297]

it kinda urks me that the failure of the people on top, always hits the people on the bottom the worst. constantly dragging their feet with the energy-transition was bound to bite them and therefore us in the ass sooner or later. just be ready, this wont be the last bite, plenty more to come.

[@jeanssold2131]

Continent refuses to buy energy from nearest source, baffled by consequences

[@somebodynamedJ.]

As a German I want to apologize for the inconvenience that my incompetent government is causing Europe

[@ingbor4768]

another russian troll pretending to be german no more euros to nazzies in Russia

[@noseboop4354]

You should ask your local politicians to start a bear farm. Nothing beats bear fur to stay warm during winter.

[@asbjo]

Denmark is in the same boat. Sorry guys

[@michaelotieno6524]

No need to apologize that cheap Russian gas enabled Germany subsidize the rest of the EU and Eurozone. Without German production Eastern Europe would have been less prosperous. Anyway, it is not really your fault as your friends blew up the pipeline long before the 2027 deadline to quit Russian energy.

[@LiguTheBest]

Just vote them out

[@kgw72]

Note: here is Spain we're NOT having any energy crisis (yet).

[@dangerbeans9639]

I had a science teacher in college who told me that green energy was “a third world solution to a first world problem.” Green Energy is great for people who don’t have reliable sources of electricity already, but for people that do, solar and wind are just too unreliable.

[@DoodleDan]

Well, that's a bad "teacher". This point has been disproven how many times by now?

[@jeffmorris5802]

TL;DR: Intermittent renewables have caused an energy crisis in Europe. To solve this, Europe may need to invest more heavily into intermittent renewables. Bro.

[@roanwestraat9604]

Almost as if Germany shouldn't have shut down nuclear plants!

[@ingbor4768]

you can not have nuclear power with renewables. one must let go: nuclear power. is too expensive

[@roanwestraat9604]

@ingbor4768 lol no

[@Sporesirius]

@@roanwestraat9604 lol yes

[@chrisvazan]

The Google doc vote is absolutely horribly designed. The enormous shortlist made it quite annoying to review my choices before submitting…

[@frankcienciala3328]

This is not Europe's problem. This is Fico's and Orban's problem and also Russia's problem 😅😅😅

[@MirceaIliePloscaru]

What drugs are you on? Electricity and gas prices shooting up 3 - 4 times is a serious problem, especially for the lower class. Take in consideration that everything is tied to electricity prices and inflation / prices of goods like food WILL keep going up

[@E.Wolfdale]

Slovakia is connected to Poland by a pipe, Poland has a terminal to Norway, Slovakia had 3 years to change the supplier, despite this, Slovakia still wants to buy gas from Russia. This is certainly not a political problem at all.

[@jonashanfland-b9g]

are you stupid? 😂

[@univeropa3363]

@@E.Wolfdale Yeah, almost as if it is cheaper to buy from Russia.

[@vencik_krpo]

@@univeropa3363 It's also cheaper to buy phones from China. That doesn't mean it's the better idea.

[@NiekNooijens]

And this is why we must speed up the energy transition! Let's get rid of fossil fuels from shady dictatorships and become truly independent!

[@dnocturn84]

You do know their "transition plans", do you? In order to fuel their industry, solar farms and hydrogen plants (which are supposed to be fueld by solar energy) in North Africa are a huge part of these plans. Speaking about independence... North Africa is another dependence and therefore must be scrapped. But how to fuel the industry then???

[@ΧρήστοςΜποβιάτσης]

Europe and crisis, name a more iconic duo.

[@Nestoras_Zogopoulos]

Africa and Crisis

[@o.3464]

Greece and crisis, name a more expected duo.

[@editorrbr2107]

EU and bureaucratic overreach? Europe and lack of political will? Europe and handwringing dilatory action? Help me out. There are a lot of tandems that work here.

[@DoctorGuru90]

There's no crisis. This is just misinformation and a clickbait title for a poorly researched video.

[@santostv.]

We have been in crisis for decades, although it might be hard,this shall past.

[@OhNotThat]

Hungary and Slovakia were foolish to think that Ukraine would renewal a gas transit agreement with a country THEY'RE AT WAR WITH after it expired. Frankly, it was amazing that Ukraine didn't just cancel it immediately.

[@alumni2a692]

Too bad 😂 winter has never been as warm as it is now 😂

[@fernbedek6302]

Are they regretting closing those nuclear plants yet?

[@gpsfinancial6988]

Good timing for Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant third reactor (1600mw) to come online 21/12/2024. 17 years after construction started and at a cost of 13 billion Euros. The Finnish Olkiluoto 3 reactor was about as expensive and late, it came on stream in 2023.

[@SammyInnit]

They laughed at Trump when he said to the Germans that they were too reliant on Russian gas. Oh how the turn tables.

[@univeropa3363]

Who could have expected that America would provoke a proxy war?

[@hundvd_7]

He was not completely wrong, but it is only 5% of the issue here. Did you even watch this video? Or know _anything_ about the past ~20 years? It's like going up to a homeless man and saying "I think you should get some food". It is a smart thing to point out _only_ if you are below 5 years of age.

[@vencik_krpo]

@@univeropa3363 That is utter nonsense. Putin didn't attack because of the US. It was purely a matter of his regime stability (not security!) being threatened by Ukraine's pro-western direction after the Euromajdan. You listen to Russian propaganda far too much.

[@univeropa3363]

@@vencik_krpo Right, I must have imagined the US politicians flying in and out of the country and talking like McCain about being with them in their fight.

[@Camcolito]

It couldn't have anything to do with giving all our money to Ukraine and importing oil and gas from across the Atlantic could it?

[@Thesecret101-te1lm]

Missing part: Germany haven't implemented electricity price zones, which means they aren't following the EU rules. Also if they would implement electricity price zones, they people in Bavaria wouldn't be able to tell the fable that they are subsidizing the rest of Germany (or at least not as much).

[@LarthV]

And that is why they use their effective veto to stop it whatever happens

[@Sem-v7z]

Assumptions… winter only just started, and not particularly cold yet

[@Bengt.Lueers]

6:10 As your data shows, Europe's and in particular Germany's economic downturns is largely driven by the car industry, not the other way around. They first relied on cheap exports, which got way more expensive during the corona years and have not used the downtime to make the transition to battery electric vehicles, which is the biggest growth segment now.

[@ingbor4768]

Automakers decided to stop producing cheap cars and that is hurting the industrial production

[@dnocturn84]

That's not really true. Every industry in Germany, that consumes large amounts of energy, is impacted. See chemical industry or steel industry for example. You could claim, that Germanys car industry is impacted by energy prices - this is closer to the truth. But their downfall is an entirely different story and also causes damage to its surroundings - that much is true. The bad transition to electric cars also isn't directly their fault. The resources to make batteries were cleverly protected by foreign governments (such as China and the US) and any attempt to do it with the "leftovers" was eliminated through dumping prices. It would have required a clever government to step in and do the neccessary dirty work. Same is currently happening to manufacturing of solar panels, wind turbines and many important electronic components needed for renewables.

[@Bengt.Lueers]

​​@@dnocturn84Virtually all the complexity of an electric car is in the battery. With the development stop of internal combustion engines a few years ago, lots of engineers at the car makers should have been set to work on battery electric vehicles, but the car makers decided against it for image reasons. Now, cutting edge research in battery technology happens in Germany, but it is engineered into high quality products in China. Yes, mastering this transition would also have required political support, but who if not the German car makers have access to the political sphere? I struggle to accept the lack of political support as an excuse.

[@dnocturn84]

@@Bengt.Lueers The problem is to build a battery cheap and reliable - with emphasis on "cheap". And a western European country can't beat China when it comes to being cheap. Even if they throw 25 times the manpower at it. Energy prices in China are also at a record low. Also you'll have to import basic resources from China to make them here, that we didn't secure ourselves beforehand. Basic resources, Chinese companies sell for cheap to Chinese manufacturers, but a lot more expensive and in limited quantities to their rivals in Europe. It's a strategy, to keep this advantage as much as possible and for long as possible in Chinese hands. To be fair: those German car manufacturers themselves planned to make electric cars in low cost countries a long time ago. It wasn't possible to make that transition away from western Europe with combustion engines, due to a lack of making its components with the required quality in low-cost countries, but they will suceed with this plan for electric cars. It's a normal thing for computers, consumer electronics, etc. today and it will be normal for cars in the future too.

[@Bengt.Lueers]

@dnocturn84 thanks for sharing your thoughts. It is becoming clear now, that outsourcing production like computer chips is a liability. Similarly, the EU should probably consider if onshoring battery production might be worth it. Another answer to this problem might be to make other battery technologies work good enough, like nickel cadmium or nickel metal hybrid. Making these production cheap might also require EU-wide coordination. Maybe we should produce where labor is cheapest, with the highest possible degree of automation and address the whole European market across all automakers.

[@leakyabstraction]

I don't know how much difference this makes, but most commercial places here in Germany are so wasteful with resources still. Shopping malls with doors left open, and shops where if you wear any coat or jacket you're uncomfortably sweating during shopping. You arguably really couldn't tell that energy prices are particularly high.

[@KerplunkTM]

these 2 bots with 3 emotes below me

[@hundvd_7]

Brother, there is not "below" you. Comments can be sorted multiple ways. And by the time you finish writing a comment, 10 more might appear between you...

[@asan1050]

Thank you very much!

[@Bengt.Lueers]

1:10 You are cherry-picking your data, so much, that your average literally only fits one data point (February 2023 or so). When you leave out the corona years (2020 and 2021) from the pre-war average, you should also exclude the energy crisis years (2022 and 2023) from your post-war average. Eyeballing, this would move your average value from 140 to 90 € / TWh, which is a steady-state increase by a factor of 2, which is far less dramatic than the 4 x you arrive at.

[@strigoiu13]

using averages and not ponderate spikes at all...this was made by a rookie.

[@oriontigley5089]

I despise anyone who fears nuclear power. I view them as supersticious, paranoid and unintelligent.

[@mohammedwaheeb9325]

My dude humans f up everything. Time has proven that we do not work in unison and perfection all the time. More nuclear means more probability of f ing up, and when you f up in a nuclear power plant, things are dangerous for all of us. I say the fear is justifiable in a matter of fact, your view as the so-called "unintelligent" is quite unintelligent. Do we really trust Hungry or Romaine with their high corruption rate to maintain a couple of nuclear power plants ??!

[@asbjo]

Please moderate that perspective. Remember that nuclear power in its heyday was not mature, and the anti-nuclear movement here was right as far as the industry had not found a sufficient solution to the waste and that the reactors where not as failsafe as the industry would like to make people think. However.. They also succeed in making people and some governments reject all notions of it out of incredulity and fear. Hence there's been very little debate about it. Hence most people against nuclear are coming from a very biased and un/mis-informed background. Most people i get to have a decent on-topic conversation with, soften a lot on their perspective. Give people a chance. .

[@ericbotondbatternay8452]

It's obvious that nuclear energy needs further investment to improve the transition to green energy and strengthen sovereignty

[@PGM991]

Europe : "My people are freezing!" Ukraine : "My people are DYING!!"

[@EchoObserver9]

This video is making a narrative up... From the very thumbnail we can tell.

[@yordanpatronski1897]

Hello TLDR. I appreciate your work ethic, unbiased reporting and the fact that anyone can watch your videos for free on KZbin. Please dont add music in the intro of the videos. Especially if the theme is serious (for example the energy crisis). Thank you, much love.

[@FernanPer94]

This means Europe are gonna face challenges such as an energy crisis, industrial decline, and insufficient innovation, which are expected to intensify in the coming years.

[@univeropa3363]

Thanks to our commitment to American foreign policy.

[@oceanwave4502]

Paradox for EU: aging population or the rise of Far Right. They have to choose one. 🙄

[@Blondul11]

@@univeropa3363 It has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with European security. Germany being reliant on Russian gas will lead to more conflicts not less.

[@univeropa3363]

@@Blondul11 How?

[@Blondul11]

@@univeropa3363 Putin said multiple times he won't stop at Ukraine. He wants the Soviet system back. There's a lot of independent countries that used to be part of that.

[@miniporscheclub]

1. Rapidly depleting gas reserves 2. Ukraine shutting down the last gas pipeline into EU (5% of all EU gas supply) 3.Germany's green policies. There I fixed your summary. Now, the EU will buy LNG which has come from Russia but is more expensive. However, they can pretend it came from another port by paying even more via a middleman.

[@MarktYertd]

Happy new year and don't worry guys, we only need to bring more 🕌tolerant men to Europe and the ernegy crisis is solved

[@andreasioannides3338]

Shouldnt have destroyed your nuclear reactors