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The same is happening in The Netherlands as well: https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektricitei... For April: https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektricitei... Solar was 27% of total energy production, and wind was 37%, which when you consider nights, means that you _must_ have peaks well over 50%. Today, at midday, solar is 69% of total production.
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Imagine how low CO2 levels would be if nuclear plants were online...
Wouldn't change much if any at all. Nuclear power was only less than 6% of total energy production in 2022 already. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage...
Which was 141 TWH in 2010 and would have more than replaced the entire brown&hard coal use for 2023.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricit...
When I see these charts I definitely don’t want to be that sweating guy in grid operator’s control room desperately trying to turn off some solar parks to stabilize the grid. Solar generation goes from nothing at night to 80+% during daytime. Ouch.
We've got a very persistent trend across all these ideology-before-prosperity western countries where their energy policy is proving to be a disaster. We're getting literal de-growth of energy and a lot of the political fireworks are probably related to that. Hopefully we see some long-term improvements, but the last decade has not been pretty.
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You ask to not spread misleading then immediatly spreading a politician lies. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/26/german-green...
I don't find a single, reliable German source for all of that fuss. That might make you think about it again...
You didn't read the article I sent, it show you don't care about what it says but you try to attack the article because you dislike what it say.
The article state it's source is cicero, a... german magazine.
https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/robert-habeck-akten-atomk...
The numbers are too low. We have seen a surge in solar panels on balconies (~10% in this higher income neighborhood), which isn't taken into account. Also several people in my family have their roof full for their own consumtion + EV, this also not taken into account. We recently went on the Autobahn for a 1000km journey, and you can see some solar farms, but very few. There is still a huge potential. Solar will also…
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Wouldn't change much if any at all. Nuclear power was only less than 6% of total energy production in 2022 already. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage...
What a weird reference to take. It should be obvious they're talking about pre-fukushima capacity. Which was 141 TWH in 2010 and would have more than replaced the entire brown&hard coal use for 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330065/gross-electricit...
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Germany build the equivalent solar-capacity to the sum of every nuclear reactor it ever operated in the last 3 years. Our _green_ minister of the economy and energy continued running the reactors even past their agreed run-time because the Ukraine war happened, but they simply reached end-of-life. So we've replaced the small amount of nuclear we had with renewables already. Now you might ask why we don't build new on…
Is that nameplate or actual usable solar? In Texas or Spain the solar capacity factor is about 0.2, in Germany it's probably 0.15 or less. So if it's nameplate equivalent but with nuclear capacity factor of 0.9 or more you'd have to 6x the solar to produce the same amount of energy to the grid over a year.
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I don't find a single, reliable German source for all of that fuss. That might make you think about it again...
Here what I think about it again: You didn't read the article I sent, it show you don't care about what it says but you try to attack the article because you dislike what it say. The article state it's source is cicero, a... german magazine. https://www.cicero.de/innenpolitik/robert-habeck-akten-atomk...