Target of Energiewende was clean, cheap and reliable energy. It is not cheap and thanks to intermittency and lack of grid build up (Suedlink problems) will soon also be unreliable.
It is clean (compared to what it was before) and reliable. Cheap was never a target. In fact, household prices are artificially and intentionally (as by design) kept high to promote conservation. Average day-ahead market prices at EPEX SPOT in 2021 were lower than prices for France.
>The promise was sweet: Germany's transition towards a low-carbon society would cost the average household no more than €1 ($1.1) per month, "the price of a scoop of ice cream," as Jürgen Trittin, then minister for the environment, put it in 2004.
So please don't try to rewrite the history. It was supposed to be cheap.
