Dan Jørgensen

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The Rest Is Politics · 547. The Truth About Russian Oil, Net Zero, and North Sea Drilling · 24 Jun 2026 podcast

We could invest even more in the renewables.

We could invest even more and subsidize even more if we wanted to energy efficiency measures.

really expanding fast.

And if we look at globally, how much is being invested in solar and wind, actually it's twice as much as being invested in fossil.

So that's also an argument in itself for why this is good business.

And by the way, most of what's being invested in fossil is being invested in maintenance of existing infrastructure.

So the investments are really moving towards where's the best business case and that's solar and wind.

So that helps us a lot.

What can then be done politically?

Well, one of the big problems right now, and to be honest, the biggest bottleneck that I see and danger that I see is that we do not expand our grids fast enough, because it doesn't matter if we do as I want, deploy more renewables, if those renewables cannot come online.

And we have some very terrible examples of what this might lead to in Europe.

So again, if you'll allow me an anecdote from when I was minister in Denmark, I had to sometimes persuade Danish taxpayers that it was a good idea for us to use our money subsidizing wind turbines.

And then when the wind was really blowing and we were producing too much energy, sometimes the German taxpayers' money would be spent to pay us to stop the wind turbines because their grid was not able to

take it in.

So that's what we call curtailment.

So this is why one of the main objectives on my list of things to do in my job is to make sure that we expand our grids and connect our countries better in Europe to get out of this problem.

Now, that's also a problem sometimes for solar, but solar has the advantage very often that it's also very local production, it's decentralized production.

So I do think that solar is going to be

one of the main components of our energy systems in the future.

Countries do it differently.

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