Germany’s big-spending energy bailouts may not be enough

FRANKFURT – Germany is bleeding money to maintain the lights on. The invoice is sort of half a trillion {dollars}, and counting, for the reason that Ukraine struggle jolted it into an power disaster 9 months in the past.

That’s the cumulative scale of the bailouts and plans the Berlin authorities has launched to prop up the nation’s power system since costs rocketed and it misplaced entry to fuel from important provider Russia, calculations present.

And it is probably not sufficient.