Gas prices - Where is gas still affordable?

You are forgetting something crucial. Yes, it has grown in a few years and absorbed CO2. However, over many millions of years. The gigantic amounts of fossil fuels that we recklessly burn today have bound CO2 from millions of years. They are trapped sunlight from millions of years. And we now release this solar energy and gigantic amounts of CO2 into the air within decades. Thus, the planned ice age is canceled and we can rejoice about climate change.

Why should it release more CO2 if you only plant during the first 20 years until the harvesting maturity?

Actually, this whole wood discussion is superfluous: We have to reach zero CO2 within the next 10 to 30 years (there are different levels of acceptance here...).

You are absolutely right. Currently, Germany's wood consumption is about twice as high as it should be.

Now, of course, the question remains unresolved as to what Germany actually wants to use for heating in the future and what will be used to produce electricity.

Coal from Russia is sanctioned. Primary raw material for electricity generation in Germany!
It is now imported from Australia, China, or Indonesia and is very expensive just because of transport. And also scarce since everyone wants to avoid Russian coal.

Gas from Russia is sanctioned. NS II is not being activated even though it is operational.
Gas is also a primary raw material for our electricity generation. But we want to become independent of it.

Photovoltaics. Only works when the sun is shining, and unfortunately not in winter. Very high bureaucratic hurdles and massive delivery difficulties. There is enormous dependence on Asia here. Production of photovoltaic components in Germany almost no longer exists.
A fast and reliable electricity supplier looks different.

Wind power theoretically also works in winter but only when there is wind. The government’s expansion plans are completely unrealistic.
The last manufacturer of wind turbine blades in Germany has just closed its production. They now also come from China.
The capacities of the manufacturers would have to be expanded by two-thirds to achieve the politically set goals. Doesn’t work at all.

Decentralized combined heat and power plants require oil or gas. Pointless.

Nuclear power. Here, too, the fuel rods and raw materials would have to be sourced from Russia; Russia has already announced counter-sanctions, so nothing more is coming. There will be no more nuclear power in Germany. So it also falls out as an electricity supplier.

Wood from Russia is also sanctioned. Here, too, there are already noticeable delivery bottlenecks for firewood as well as drastic price increases.

In short, electricity will be a very big problem in the future. Therefore, electrification of heating and simultaneous increase in e-mobility is economic suicide.

At 35 degrees and sunshine, hardly anyone thinks about winter. But we can have the first night frosts in 10 weeks.

I just had my photovoltaic system connected by an electrician. After a two-hour trial operation, the operational system was sealed until the grid operator accepts and releases it. Until then, the system now produces no electricity. Zero!
How long this will take now. Maybe 3-4 months. Maybe also 6 months.

So we are supposed to save electricity, which also saves gas. Cold showers, wear a sweater, etc. But within a few days to approve a PV system
that can deliver about 100 kW of solar power daily, we can’t manage that. An approval in November is of relatively little use to me because until the end of February very little electricity can be produced.

Hundreds, yes thousands of photovoltaic systems are waiting for acceptance by the grid operators. There are also media reports about this.
Now it turns out that there are no electricity meters on the market. These 2-way meters with reverse run lock are very hard to buy on the market. They come from the Far East.

What do we actually want to do here anymore? Buy a bag of popcorn and just watch the decline of the country.

It will not happen on a global scale.

Until a few months ago, the energy transition was planned with 40 new gas power plants to be built. Only with these as reserves would it be feasible. It should be clear now that these are no longer allowed to be gas, right? This means the transition as planned has already failed.

Electric energy accounts for about 20% of the energy needed domestically. Of that, we can currently generate about 8% from renewables. So the shortfall is not 2 but 10, roughly a factor of 5 with heat pumps and electric cars. Although the marginal benefit will decrease with each additional percent—each extra percent will therefore become more expensive to achieve than the previous one.

You’d better discuss the "base and peak load problem solving" with a neutral engineer rather than with agenda-driven political scientists, sociologists, environmental scientists, PowerPoint acrobats, and other know-it-alls. And it’s best to have someone explain to you how, out of over 10,000 km of newly needed (yes, not optional. Necessary!) high-voltage lines, well under 1,000 km have been built even after 10 years. And that is just one of the completely runaway essentials.