But although Germany is the world's
poster child for renewable energy, its grids can not yet cope with the erratic nature of wind and solar power.
Germany has been long
the poster child for renewables zealots in Australia, who keep telling us that the -LSB-...]
Not exact matches
The
poster child for this is the State of South Australia, which has now suffered from five state electricity blackouts in the last six months as a result of closing down dependable fossil fuel generating stations in favor of unreliable «
renewable» sources.
Nuclear power will do the heavy lifting, just as is has been doing in France
for the past 30 years where it has been supply in 75 - 85 % of France's electricity with its CO2 emissions just 15 % of Germany's and Denmark's (the two
poster child of the
renewable energy advocates).
Since you mentioned Enron, according to some they were the
poster child for corporate social responsibility, lobbying
for renewable energy mandates, carbon dioxide regulation and btu taxes, all that would make energy more expensive.