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Vlad Putin can’t be blamed for blanketing Germany’s millions of solar panels in snow and ice, or freezing solid their 30,000 wind turbines. Nor can Vlad be convicted for this (and every previous) winter’s long periods of gloomy, windless weather – ‘dunkelflaute’, as Germans call it.

No, Germany’s current energy catastrophe is the perfectly predictable consequence of perfectly avoidable government policy. The German government called their grand wind and solar transition the ‘Energiewende’; anyone gifted with common sense and reason deemed it ‘delusional’.

And so it’s come to pass: Germans are now suffering Europe’s highest power prices and are lucky to have power, at all. Power rationing is a regular feature of German daily life; faced with that debilitating prospect, heavy industry and manufacturing businesses are heading to the USA, or Singapore, where power prices are a mere fraction of those suffered at home.

Rick Mills provides a helpful…