Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you say that?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/basf-cut-jo...
Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
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#22I think renewable energy disruption is happening faster than many can fathom. A few breakthroughs in storage technology and things might actually turn into optimism from Climate fears in 1 or 2 decades. Hopefully entrenched interests do not let free market disrupt them this time.
In the past 2 decades Germany has blown hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy. Now we have the highest electricity price in the world. It is all socialism. Zero market :-(
The price is determined by the most expensive generator. Without renewables, prices would have been even higher
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#23Right now, Germany appears to be 85% renewable [0], but is still pretty mediocre on CO2 emissions compared to many of its neighbours (Poland excepted!). That 8GW of coal still hurts, but the trend is pretty good.
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#24The deindustrialization has begun.
What makes you say that?
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#25The deindustrialization has begun.
What makes you say that?
Articles like that one and many others:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-12/germany-w...
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#26Re: Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
#27I think renewable energy disruption is happening faster than many can fathom. A few breakthroughs in storage technology and things might actually turn into optimism from Climate fears in 1 or 2 decades. Hopefully entrenched interests do not let free market disrupt them this time.
If everyone plays ball. That we will need to see. China, USA, India also need to go in hard.
Doesn't China already lead in many areas of renewables including wind and solar deployments and manufacturing? https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/china-widens-ren...
China also supplies the bulk of Germany's solar panel demands.
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#28Actually Germany recently shut down all of it's nuclear plants and replaced them with the dirtiest fuel possible: lignite coal burning plants. Statistics are a peculiar thing.
Do you have a source for that?
Why does OP need to provide a source? Why you don't look for the info yourself?
It is common knowledge in Europe that Germany shut down its nuclear plant (15/04/23 the last one), and they compensated with a lot of coal this winter.
Re: Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
#29Actually Germany recently shut down all of it's nuclear plants and replaced them with the dirtiest fuel possible: lignite coal burning plants. Statistics are a peculiar thing.
Do you have a source for that?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/energy-crisis-fu...
... or, if you prefer that, straight from the German government statistical office itself: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Branchen-Unternehmen/Energ...
Re: Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
#30Actually Germany recently shut down all of it's nuclear plants and replaced them with the dirtiest fuel possible: lignite coal burning plants. Statistics are a peculiar thing.
Given the lower amount of energy generated by coal compared to when the nuclear plants were still running, it would be more accurate to say that they were replaced by solar and wind power since they are the only forms of energy creation that increased their output since nuclear was shut down.