Germany's May Electricity Prices Surge to Four Times that of France.

[John ONeill]

5. Offshore wind

France apparently intends to spend ten billion Euros on floating wind. The first UK floating wind outfit was just sold for one pound, so this may be an unwise investment. Reminds me of when France's then Energy Minister, Segolene Royale, after setting in motion the destruction of two gigawatt's worth of nuclear power at Fessenheim (24/7, 96.8% energy availability), celebrated her intention in 2016 to build "a thousand kilometres of 'solar roads!' ". About one kilometre was built, and within a year, it was electronic junk. Meanwhile, Germany generates less power than before it built most of its wind and solar, and makes up for it by importing an average 2 GW from France.