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hunter

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3. Places with aggressive "renewable energy" programs have very expensive electricity.
Tue Jun 4, 2024, 03:15 PM
Jun 2024

The claim that renewable energy is cheap is a flat out lie. The nimble fossil fuel power plants and energy storage schemes required to "back up" renewable energy schemes are not cheap.

Germany's electric grid reeks of hypocrisy and greenhouse gas emissions. Residential and small business users pay over 50 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity, heavy industry uses coal power as cheap as it comes.

In nuclear France consumers pay 21 cents a kilowatt hour.

Canadian consumers pay 12 cents a kilowatt hour.

Etc.




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