Germany’s $263 Billion Renewables Shift Biggest Since War - Bloomberg

Some statistics to introduce Bloomberg's latest article on the continuation of the renewables Ponzi scheme in Germany.
According to the monthly data I pulled off of entsoe.net, between 2000 and 2011 Germany's electricity consumption rose 2% while it's use of 'fossil fuels' in electricity production rose 12%.
In Ontario, consumption has dropped about 7% over that time, and the use of 'fossil fuels' has dropped by 50%.
Nuclear output here grew 43% over that time.

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Bloomberg's article notes the outcomes real economists expected the German strategy would have, in energy markets, are occurring.

Germany’s $263 Billion Renewables Shift Biggest Since War - Bloomberg:

"Germany’s efforts in the industry are sending shocks through European power markets. When it’s windy and sunny, turbines and solar cells flood the grid with electricity, undermining the economics of natural-gas fired generators, since clean energy has supply priority over fossil fuels.
Utilities running gas generating plants in Germany lost 10.92 euros a megawatt-hour today at 12:16 p.m. local time, based on so-called clean-spark spreads for the next month that take account of gas, power and emissions prices. That compared with a profit of 20.95 euros in October 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. U.K. generators earned 2.06 pounds ($3.27), down from a profit of 7.02 pounds in October.
Statkraft SF, a Norwegian power generator, said last month it’s shutting a gas-fired plant in the German city of Emden near the Dutch border because prices are so low. A biomass plant at the same site will keep working, the Oslo-based utility said."

Maybe it isn't time to double, or triple, up on a strategy that has accomplished nothing so far, but alternatively, to get the 'f' out of this 'renewable shift'

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Chris, here's a summary of the data you requested -  it's " 'Data provided by ENTSO-E', a site you need to register for, but it's free, and if you navigate to https://www.entsoe.eu/resources/data-portal/country-packages/ you'll then be able to pull monthly data by country and month.  Editing down the vast amount of data from 2000 and 2011's packages for Germany, these are the figures relevant to a 2% increase in consumption, and a 12% increase in fossil fuels.

month	2000 FF (GWh)	2011 FF (GWh)	2000 Consumption	2011 Consumption
1	31,041	33,718	49,542	51,756
2	28,967	32,300	46,274	49,519
3	29,986	31,492	47,986	48,292
4	25,223	26,893	42,179	43,412
5	23,034	27,876	42,550	42,829
6	22,248	26,947	39,287	43,093
7	23,411	27,619	40,870	43,307
8	23,490	25,034	40,034	41,915
9	24,424	25,353	42,437	41,125
10	25,989	30,750	45,616	45,668
11	27,910	31,667	46,924	44,922
12	28,382	30,922	47,630	48,370
TOTAL	314,105	350,571	531,329	544,208