Back in 2020, Germany’s required grid investment through to 2050 was calculated to be $130 billion by a study commissioned by E.ON, which is to say a little more than $4 billion spend per year, likely to have been spread out through the whole period and local legal challenges obstructed large-scale project developments. Since then a Green coalition government got elected, Nordstream 2 was cancelled – and of course supplies of fuel from Russia are being shut down as fast as EU governments can manage it. By April 2021, a Grid Development Plan put out by the four transmission system operators (TSOs) foresaw $84 billion being spent by 2035, so under $6 billion per year. The pace of the energy…