have they tried to fart into the fan?  electricity prices have been spiking across europe, with germany seeing a record high of 936 per megawatt hour, reports bild. the culprit? dark doldrums or weather where there is no wind plus no sun due to stratus clouds, meaning wind and solar power plants and collectors produce no electricity.  unfortunately, germany shut down lignite and coal-fired power plants this past spring that produced more than 4 gigawatts of power. municipal utilities, electricity traders, and industrial companies now have to order megawatt hours at short notice on the energy exchanges spot market at shock prices, forcing some companies to reduce production. one steel plant in riesa owned by the saxon company feralpi has completely stopped production. managing director tobias wesselow of anke gmbh, a metalworking company operating in essen since 1896, says he lets the furnaces cool down during price peaks. the current electricity prices are unbearably high and have in some cases reached a factor of 10 compared to normal prices on an hourly basis. such days are financially blood red for us, wesselow told bild. many companies that purchase their electricity on the exchange are also restricting their production, he added, calling it catastrophic for the economy.  wolfgang groe entrup, ceo of the german chemical industry association (vci), told the newspaper: its enough to make us despair. our companies and our country cannot afford fair-weather production. we urgently need power plants that can reliably step in.   strompreise-strom-so-teuer-wie-nie- erste-betriebe-stoppen-produktion-6 7332da6ac664936f30d9b04
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