Germany's wind farms challenged (BBC) [View All]

By Tim Bowler
BBC World Service business reporter, Alsleben, Germany

Germany is the world's biggest user of wind power, and it has ambitious plans to build even more wind turbines.

It has decided that generating nuclear power is not the way forward, and it has decided eventually to close all the country's existing nuclear power stations.

The country's great hope for is for a future of green energy, and in particular wind power.

However, some observers are now questioning whether all the investment in wind power makes economic sense.
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But a row is brewing over the cost of building the power lines {and other infrastructure} which will be needed.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4944046.stm

This article discusses the drawback of the fact that wind power is not continuous 24/7, but does not ONCE mention the possibility of storing or accumulating energy! This strikes me as a glaring, and baffling, omission.

All in all, this doesn't strike me as the most informative article I've ever seen, but it did make me aware of some things going on in Germany I didn't know about. (like shutting down ALL nuclear plants!?! When was that decided ?) It also gives the impression that Germany may have gone ahead full tilt with this program before all the consequences were fully considered.