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Germany’s Electricity Rationing Is No Longer Unthinkable
Klaus Müller’s grid planning raises fears of power rationing, blackouts, and the consequences of Germany’s renewable energy policies.
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Thomas Kolbe
August 2, 2026, 10:22 PM
Klaus Müller, head of the Federal Network Agency (Leonhard Lenz, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
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For a child of the 1980s, it is undoubtedly a peculiar experience to witness the seemingly unstoppable decline of Germany into the lower ranks of developed nations. What memories do the events surrounding the invasion of the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla evoke these days? The loss of control in 2015 and its serious consequences for our society are becoming tangible again. Germany’s cities have not been the same since those years — German citizens are paying an enormous price for the ideological-socialist delusion that has embedded itself in all parties beyond the firewall, in their organizations, and in the media.<br>It therefore comes as little surprise that, amid this atmosphere of loss of control, the head of the Federal Network Agency, Klaus Müller, declares:
“Electricity supply is largely secured, but …”<br>Yes, a very big “but.” If supply is ever not secured, electricity will have to be allocated — in plain language: the state will begin rationing electricity.<br>For politics, the self-created electricity crisis represents a blessing: managing scarcity is the core business of socialists.
How was it again? The energy transition was supposed to cost us no more than a scoop of ice cream per month. No one will ever be able to seriously quantify the actual economic costs of this fiasco. Added to this is the fact that the loss of confidence among investors and political actors in the systemic stability of the Federal Republic weighs at least as heavily as the direct economic damage.<br>Politics, after all, does not follow the old saying: once your reputation is ruined, you can live without restraint. In real life, we find ourselves caught in a pincer movement of insecure energy supply and ever-rising energy costs. The reputation is ruined — only the beneficiaries of this deliberate destruction of Germany’s energy infrastructure continue to live without restraint.<br>The fact is that Germans are now paying the price for a centrally planned energy policy distorted by permanent subsidies. Unreliable electricity from intermittent sources and the illusion of renewable energy being available at all times have destroyed any form of serious energy strategy.
Renewables do not deliver energy when it is needed, but when nature allows it: when the wind blows and the sun shines. Yet precisely at the decisive moments, during periods of high demand and peak load situations, there is a lack of reliable, dispatchable power.<br>This is not serious energy policy. It is an ideological experiment conducted on a living society: green, socialist, and destructive to prosperity.<br>We are facing a collapse of unimaginable proportions if what Klaus Müller has been preparing for at least two years proves true: the forced rationing of electricity to consumers in the name of grid stability.<br>The situation is precarious. As colleagues from Apollo News have reported, the Federal Network Agency has already been preparing for two years for a genuine nightmare scenario involving electricity shortages lasting several days or even weeks.
“Security Platform Electricity” is the internal working title — a system connecting grid operators and authorities and providing timely information on necessary shutdowns in the event that electricity demand exceeds available supply.<br>The possible targets of shutdowns include energy-intensive industry, large-scale consumers — and, one can fear, ultimately also electric vehicles, which may only be charged to a limited extent.<br>It is the irony of our time: to cut off electricity from the very electric car drivers whom politicians elevated to saviors of the world, supposed climate protectors, and mobile individualists of the green movement when things...