How Millions Of ‘Cheap’ Electric Heaters Could Crush Germany’s Power Grid

Maybe they ran out of firewood to buy. A few weeks after we reported that google searches for "firewood" exploded in Germany, ground zero of what is sure to be a very cold winter... ... the country whose electric grid will be crippled for the foreseeable future after Russia's decision to halt nat gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, is now facing another crisis. According to Reuters, Germans could overload their power grid as they switch to inefficient electric heaters in an attempt to avoid gas shortages this winter, utilities warned in…