And solar energy has considerably contributed to lower electricity costs for the German industry! It is households which pay the extra costs of grid modernization, but don’t harvest much advantages of cheap renewable generation.
Also, IMO grid modernization should be considered a cost caused by fossil energy use, because it would be much cheaper if we hadn’t been clinging to coal for so long. And the necessity to modernize the grid is also caused by the climate damage which fossil energy is causing, so it is wrong to charge even consumers which already use 100% of cheap renewable energy with the cost of modernization.
And regarding nuclear, which somebody surely will bring up - at that point betting on nuclear was just an excuse for continuing to use fossil energy without changing ways. Nuclear is just too expensive to be any reslistic alternative. Especially considering that the billions spent on nuclear plants would have much better effects if spent on modernizing train infrastructure and giving interest-free KfW credits for investments in buildung insulation, heat pumps, and EVs.
And solar energy has considerably contributed to lower electricity costs for the German industry! It is households which pay the extra costs of grid modernization, but don’t harvest much advantages of cheap renewable generation.
Also, IMO grid modernization should be considered a cost caused by fossil energy use, because it would be much cheaper if we hadn’t been clinging to coal for so long. And the necessity to modernize the grid is also caused by the climate damage which fossil energy is causing, so it is wrong to charge even consumers which already use 100% of cheap renewable energy with the cost of modernization.
And regarding nuclear, which somebody surely will bring up - at that point betting on nuclear was just an excuse for continuing to use fossil energy without changing ways. Nuclear is just too expensive to be any reslistic alternative. Especially considering that the billions spent on nuclear plants would have much better effects if spent on modernizing train infrastructure and giving interest-free KfW credits for investments in buildung insulation, heat pumps, and EVs.