It would not be a seal of quality for German energy policy if the second “stress test”, which is supposed to decide on an emergency use of nuclear power, came to a different result than the first.

Then all the experts and politicians would have burned their fingers who still claim that the gas crisis is about heat, not electricity.

The fact that every private household can heat with electricity instead of gas seems just as irrelevant as the households that need more electricity because they install the warmly recommended heat pumps.

Heating with electricity instead of gas may not really be worthwhile for the household budget.

But what should the Germans do now: save gas or save money?

The displacement arts in terms of electricity consumption are not new, although the energy transition is based on exactly that, on heat from electricity, whether directly from renewable energy or via “green” hydrogen, which is produced using green electricity.

The gas crisis reminds Germany of how much of it it will need one day, how much electricity is needed to supply enough "green" hydrogen not only for household heating, but also for the needs of German industry alone.

You don't have to like nuclear power.

But the assertion that she cannot contribute anything at all speaks to a German stress test of a special kind.