German experiment to make wind powered Silicon Chips fails (Joannenova 28/7)To understand the scale of just how green Germany is, ponder that
it has the third largest wind power fleet in the world, with around 30,000 turbines. In 2020, wind power generated more than a quarter of German electricity and solar power another 10%. Despite all that *free* energy Germans pay some of the highest electricity prices in the world
at 38c/KWh ( green South Australia also 38cents ) Whereas Singaporeans use natural gas and pay 18c/KWh. Germans are famous for their high tech engineering, but now they can’t afford to manufacture it at home.
Siltronic is moving, and along with that presumably goes some of the intellectual property, brains, and security that comes with having that production locally.
Chipmakers lament high taxes and levies on electricity in GermanySiltronic boss Christoph von Plotho blames Germany’s high energy costs for the decision: “The high electricity price makes the location unattractive,” he said in an interview with the Handelsblatt. His company pays “less than half the electricity price” in Singapore.
The main cost driver in Germany is the green energy levy under the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) which has cost energy consumers more than 30 billion euros last year.
It’s not just expensive electricity, it’s “insecure” electricity:
Germany’s largest semiconductor producer Infineon told Handelsblatt that insecure power supply was also a major factor in reconsidering industrial production in Germany and Europe.
Clean Energy WireSolar panels and wind turbines are just not good for making silicon chips.
How much will Germany change world temperatures with windmills when the factories just move to different places?
Happening in Australia . Manufacturing decimated , in large part by high renewable energy price rises.
For example South Australia.
