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DISINFO: Power in Germany collapse after relying on wind and solar energy

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DISINFO: Power in Germany collapse after relying on wind and solar energy

SUMMARY

Here is Germany... Ice and snow cover millions of solar panels, and 30,000 wind turbines simply froze and stopped. The German broadcaster RBB has published a report warning of a power collapse in Germany. But, fortunately, the Germans did not have time to shut down all the coal-fired plants, which saved the country from freezing. Note that these stations operated at full capacity, leaving the largest cities without energy reserves.

Moreover, more than 4 million people found themselves without electricity in Texas, where 12 gigawatts of wind turbines ceased production due to snow, which is half the capacity of wind farms.

RESPONSE

Pro-Kremlin disinformation related to renewable energy production, which is sometimes coupled with narratives about climate change, following the narrative that global warming is a "hoax" perpetrated by special interest groups like Green business that stand to benefit from climate hysteria.

There was no significant drop in electricity generation from renewables in Germany in February 2021, as reported by AFP and as shown by these charts from the country’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems that compare input from various energy sources.

It is true that colder temperatures can limit the ability of wind turbines and solar panels to produce energy, but there is no evidence that Germany was experiencing a “collapse” or “stop” in the wind and solar energy, keeping in mind that both solar panels and wind turbines are capable of functioning under cold and snowy conditions. Read more information about “30,000 wind turbines frozen” as debunked by Snopes.

On another level, the widespread electricity failure in the American state of Texas was largely caused by freezing natural gas pipelines, not by the wind which “was operating almost as well as expected, and solar power plants producing an insufficient amount of energy. Read more about this case here.

See more similar cases in our database relating to energy as well as other claims that Greta Thunberg is a mouthpiece used by the lobbyists of green energy giants; or that Ukrainians will disappear due to global warming; or that environmentalists are overjoyed by the fear around covid-19 as they see it as an opportunity; or that climate change is not such a big concern for citizens; or that the West invented the “climate hoax” to stop Russia’s economic development.

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