Interesting, the key sentence is when the mayor (I think) said: "The benefit
stays on the island." And he said something like "Everything looks better when you
own it." I applaude both sentences.
I doubt however that the model can work on a bigger scale with bigger distance covering and higher levels of industrialisation.
Sweden has its many trees, they can afford to burn wood for heating, because they plant 1.7 trees for every tree they cut, and have huge forests and a tiny population for a big country. Denmark has the "windfarms" nearby to where they are needed, especially on this island, but all of Denmark is a small country. Austria has mountains and thus plenty of small waterfalls and rivers with cascades and thus plenty of opportunities to win electric power formt he waterstream.
Germany has none of that. It plans huge windparks in the Northsea
with the power being needed in the highly industrialised production hotspots in the far south. The loss of power to get it down there, is around 65-75%. So 3-4 times more power needs to be produced - or bought - to actually get the net ammount of energy that actually is needed, isn'T that insane? Cutting trees to burn them fpr heating we cannot afford, too amny people and too small and little forests. Waterpower will always remain a minor plaything, our rivers are not strong enough for that, there is not enough elevation change. And solar?
Well solar.
I have seen it with my own panels how easily solar power can be messed up by the weather not complying. Not to mention time of day. Storing it in batteries again causes huge losses. And this month, November,
with this year showing normal winds again (different to the excessive winds and storms in 2020 and 2019) and overcast skies, renewables contributed only an itsy titsy tiny fraction to the overall energy mix, with 40% of the demand i total power needed to be imported for expensive money for France and others. Over the year, Germany sometimes exports energy, yes - but if you compare import and export totals, the imports outclass the exports clearly, and our exprts are chepaer to have than we have to pay for the imports, and even a doubling of solar panels on house roofs over here would not change anything in that signficantly. Our great green leaders simplyl cannot do math. No wonder when you see how they have brought down the German schools nt he alost 30 years. Today a headline in a newsmagazine: a study comparing 18 countries in the West for how their schoolkids got along in the homesschooling during Corona school shutdowns, Germany scored - last place, 18th. The study said nowheere are the deficits as hige as in germany. Some time ealrier, German students showed a terrible decline again in their competence in math in international, global comparison. Well, a population that cannot calculate anymore, cannot criticise criminal finance policies, so that may be welcomed. Problem is you see more and more peoplele in politics as well who cannot calculate.
And next year our last three remaining nuclear powerplants go offline.
Their missing capacity for years to come will not be compensated. Gas powerplants I do not expect to be build soon, due to their now lacking attractiveness for investors: they have all reasons to fear that they can write off their investements some years later, becasue is, by will of the EU, only an interim solutioin of a very few years: too few yeras as if the porfits possible in these few years could compensate for the investements, and France now wants to make them even more unprofitable to boost its nculear energy. Gas powerplant investors will not see their money coming back, not to mention: a profit. Nobody goes into an investment that has a limited lifetime written on it, by political will. So, the taxpayer has to pay them, if they are ever to be build, and it will be a verym very deficitary "investement".
The frnehc aölweay spose as beign oh so European. Nonsense, they are not at all, for them Europe, or better the EU, only is a vehicle to transport the French will for dominance to the top of the political food chain. Germany, so very busy with its feeling of guilt over the past, simply does not understand this unconditional will to power. Its too toothless and too kind.
So, France pushes hard to have nuclear and gas being labelled as regenerative energy by the EU, but it wants criteria beign very light for nuclear, but maximum criteria and obligations and definitions for gas so to make building gas powerplants very costly and unattractive. That way they want to earn the reputation of pushing for green energy while maximising Europe's and especially Germany's dependency on french supply of energy so that they can dictate the prices and keep Germany on a short line. Now that Germany finally, finally!, is as weak as they always wanted it to be, they have no intention to ever let it grow strong again. An extremely sinophile new German chancellor with great sympathy for collectivising European debts at the Germans' costs for France is the one big chance in a generation, thats why they close ranks with Italy currently so very obviously. With the Greens in germany wanting to make many debts for their green deal policies, now is the time to implement some wounds and weaknesses into the German industry so that german economy never can dominate as clearly as they did before, since decades. The key branch of Germ,an industry, cars, already has recieved lethal wounds. France can dominate the EU, and Germany pays for the French dominance. that is the French plan, since decades. Germany- cannot even count from one to three, and to plan over decades is expecting hopelessly too much from it. That would need strategic vision and forsight, and in that German diplomacy since always has failed miserably. Gemran diplomacy hgas somehtign is assumes to be better: it means things well. Aren't the Germans kind by heart?