Germany may face a four GW electricity shortage by 2025 and the deficit will rise to 30 GW by 2030. The newspaper writes about it Welt am Sonntag citing the estimate of experts from the international consulting company McKinsey.
“So we are on a path to a significant deficit: 30 GW corresponds to the capacity of 30 large thermal power plants,” the report says.
It is reported that blackouts will increase nearly 100 times by 2030, with the longest phase potentially lasting 21 hours.
At the end of December last year reportedA cold to be experienced on the European continent will begin to put pressure on energy supply. Weather conditions will determine whether Europe can survive the winter without power outages. The agency writes that a mild autumn has curtailed gas use and helped fill storage facilities, easing fears of possible gas shortages as supplies from Russia are cut, but problems are now starting due to cold weather.