Re: Anyone here from Germany? What exactly are your electricity costs?
Of course, for consumers the difference is less, because energy was always highly taxed and there's now even a temporary tax reduction. But still, the everage new energy contract now costs €4000 per year more than a year ago. And this data is already old, because gas prices went up further.
I hope you don't forget that this situation is temporary. It' s currently the governments that compensate the difference by indemnifying the energy companies (as you surely know).Quote
It is obvious that these compensations will end sooner or later (in December in my country but it should be the same in the rest of Europe). What will happen then? Full price and right on time when the winter will begin. Jackpot! Don't be surprised if the price increases X3
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by the way, in my country, we pay a tax based on taxes (a tax of taxes). how crazy is it?
Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm pretty sure the Dutch government invented that 
I searched on google what is the source of Germany's electricity and found out that they mainly use coal similar to our country.
Natural gas is used for more than just electricity production, and they wanted to get rid of coal because of (not very realistic) climate goals.Yep. But there is a caveat - hydrogen from Russia is much easier to replace with hydrogen from another source, because hydrogen is one of the most widespread chemical elements on Earth.
Natural gas isn't scarce. It's still very cheap in many countries. Transportation is what gets you, and hydrogen would be no difference even if it would be abundent somewhere.