Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
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Re: Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
#2Wait, what? Whatever happened to all the coal fired power plants Germany is going to spin up to keep us all warm and toasty?
Re: Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023
#3Could still be better. Having the same level of CO2e per GWh over the last 12 months as the USA is kind of embarrassing for an EU member state.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US
(You need to set the time period to last 12 months, not sure if you can encode that into the URL)
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#5Wait, what? Whatever happened to all the coal fired power plants Germany is going to spin up to keep us all warm and toasty?
Yeah I have the same question.
My understanding is they had to bring more coal online to offset shutting down nuclear. What gives?
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#6And by "record low", we mean "nearly six times that of neighboring France."
Compare: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
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#7Seems like a misleading headline. Total energy used is at a record low:
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...
Much of the decline came from gas, presumably because they stopped buying so much from Russia.
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#9Germany is killing it.
Since I've moved here I've been following renewable energy numbers and also what the government commits to, and it's incredible how they've managed to meet consistently the solar and wind generation goals.
Unfortunately, they haven't been able to meet other goals such as amount of housing built etc.
But coming from a third-world country where I wouldn't trust any kind of plans coming from the government, it's really surprising to me.
To achieve this, in a bureaucratic country like Germany, they need to align many stars like building permits, subsidies, companies that can navigate the system, capital. Yet, they still manage to do it.
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#10...and that's all because they take electricity from Czech Republic and France, leading to increased prices there. It's like with being green by dumping trash to Poland which regularly lets it burn in the open. "Solutions"