There are these things in life that you especially notice when they are gone. This includes air and love and certainly: electricity.

An inkling of that Power outages We all have uncomfortable feelings. But Germans are almost never seriously affected by this. In 2024, every citizen of this country was without electricity for an average of 12 minutes; apart from South Korea, there is no country in the world where the energy supply is more secure than ours. So you don’t have to worry too much about it? The Germans don’t do it either: In December, an Infratest-dimap survey showed that 59 percent of them have neither drinking water nor non-perishable food in stock for ten days, 58 percent have no battery or crank radio, and half don’t even have a camping stove.