Germany’s windiest area, Schleswig-Holstein, will probably achieve “100% renewable electricity” sometime this year.
PV + storage could be competitive with power from the grid by 2020 in Germany. The result could be a disastrous wave of grid defection.
Germany will undergo a partial solar eclipse that could result in sudden ramp up of 37GW of solar power.
New data from German utilities organisation shows brown and black coal generation, gas and nuclear all fell in 1st quarter, as renewables rose.
The German public never asked for nuclear power but now has to pay for the entire mess.
The New York Times’ article arguing Germany’s energy transition proves that the world needs nuclear required an astonishing level of ignorance to write.
In northern Europe, demand for heat makes up around 40 percent of total energy demand. Passive House architecture can nearly wipe out that demand entirely.
Large industrial power users in renewable-focused Germany will pay 35% less for their electricity next year than those in nuclear powered France.
Reports that the Energiewende is hurting German industry come at a time when the German economy has never looked better.
Following new Energiewende reforms, Germany’s main priority seems to be protecting big business while continuing to roll out renewables.