Die Lebenslügen der dänischen Energiewende
Denmark is held up as proof a fossil grid can be replaced. But electricity prices have more than doubled since 2000, to now sit amongst the highest in the world.
Moreover, the majority of what is labelled renewable is actually biomass, that is, wood. Trees are cut, often abroad, compressed into pellets, shipped in and then burnt for power.
At the smokestack, more CO2 is released than just simply burning gas. But it is labelled as "green" because the emissions are not counted at the power plant. They are 1) assigned to the country where the trees were cut, and 2) assumed to be reabsorbed by future regrowth.
So the system works like this: Cut trees, burn them, emit CO2, call it clean. Laughably, 64% of Denmark's renewable energy comes from this process.