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Germany Is Now Officially A Planned Economy Authored by Eduard Braun via Mises Institute, Germany’s push for a social-ecological market economy rests on far-reaching state interventions in energy and industry, including a government-driven hydrogen strategy. In a recent report Germany’s Federal Audit Office explicitly describes the policy as a planned economy and highlights fundamental problems. At the same time, it doubts that the government will reach its own targets, indicating that these climate-policy experiments are likely to fail even on their own terms. Germany’s “social-ecological transformation” is the political program of turning...

Super El Niño Could Trigger Major Coal Boom In India Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, The super El Niño weather phenomenon this year will significantly boost India's demand for coal-fired power generation over the next 12 months, as a generation gap could occur with higher temperatures, the Finland-based think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said in a report on Monday. The El Niño, the recurrent weather pattern driving global temperatures higher, would affect most energy systems globally, but none would be as affected as India's, according...

Half Of Crimea Goes Dark After Ukrainian Strike Hits Thermal Power Plant Yet more drone attacks sent by Ukraine's military has crippled much of the infrastructure of the Crimean peninsula. Reuters is confirming significant power outages, while some regional reports say as much as half of all Crimea is without power Tuesday. One of the regional publications specified that "Yevpatoria, Saki, Krasnoperekopsk, Dzhankoy, and surrounding areas were left without electricity, reports the Ukrainian service of Radio Svoboda." "Preliminary, electricity supply is planned to be restored within 24 hours" - after several facilities in Crimea suffered...