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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 01:55:27 JST simsa04 William Wilkes, "German Energy Reprieve Too Little, Too Late to Save Factory Jobs" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/german-energy-reprieve-too-little-too-late-to-save-factory-jobs
« Companies including BASF SE, Dow Inc. and Lanxess AG are poised to cut thousands of jobs and shift investment out of Germany because they don’t expect Berlin to reliably provide the energy they need at prices close to those they once paid for Russian pipeline gas. »
Less a result of the war but of the energy-transition. Keeping Germany's six #nuclear power plants would have kicked natural gas from the merit order and reduced electricity prices by half.