I learned a new German word today that's relatively new even to Germans, "Dunkelflaute"

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5. Germany is the world's largest importer of natural gas, a lot of it from Russia.

They also account for much of their industrial coal consumption on separate books, apart from the electricity rates residential users and small businesses pay.

That's how Germany keeps their renewable energy fantasy alive, and their high energy industrial consumer economy humming.

If they lose a few ancient forests and villages to strip mined coal, and their reputation as a nation that's not so corrupt as most, then that's just business as usual I suppose.