And emissions look quite bad. At the moment, largest production comes from coal. If only they had closed coal and kept nuclear…
well u can fabricate big numbers if u keep shutting down essential existing power
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Germany made up their mind, no idea to try to convince them nuclear is ok at this point. It’s a bit like playing a game in hard mode, but they might pull it off somehow. More heat pumps and less predictable electricity sources is a difficult combo though, if coal and gas also have to go at some point.
And the other half is coal?
Coal <3
Here is the thing tho, those 50% are only on paper. Germany has very high wind production in the North, and is selling this to dumping prices to their neighbors a lot of the times because the infrastructure is not there to transport it to the industry heavy south that would need it.
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This is also why Germany still has so much coal plants running, because they are in places, where the energy is needed, the wind energy is not.
Plus, the south is activly sabotaging building renewables and delaying the big power line from north to south for probably decades now.
I hope recent storage innovations like this work out well:
Basically a small company named CMBlu has invented a type of flow battery that does not use lithium or vanadium or zinc or anything rare, just lignin obtained as a byproduct from pulp mills. Long duration storage. Fully recyclable.
This year they are expanding into the US too and supplying their tech to an UK consortium led by MSE.
Now it’s time to increase electricity consumption and diminish oil and gas consumption in transportation and industry!
r/europe fantasizing about nuclear being the future and not renewables is always hilarious to see
Italian redditors are absolutely obsessed With nuclear and are gonna be so mad at this lol. GG germany, i envy you soo much. I Wish Italy had your politicians Instead of an army of corrupted disgusting Rich boomers Who don’t care about enviorment or people at all
the amazing things you can do when every single household pays $1,000/mo just for power.
mind blowing what money can achieve if you force it out of peoples wallets.
And energy prices go higher and higher. Fuck the greens.
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Share of renewable electricity production in Germany over the years: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&share=ren_share_total
The official government goal is to get to 80%+ by 2030, which is also the year the last coal power plant is supposed to get shut down.
And because this usually also comes up: [So far this year](https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE) Germany imported 17.3 TWh of electricity and exported 25.8 TWh. 7.3 TWh were exported to France and 2.6 TWh were imported from France to Germany.
And emissions look quite bad. At the moment, largest production comes from coal. If only they had closed coal and kept nuclear…
well u can fabricate big numbers if u keep shutting down essential existing power
[deleted]
Germany made up their mind, no idea to try to convince them nuclear is ok at this point. It’s a bit like playing a game in hard mode, but they might pull it off somehow. More heat pumps and less predictable electricity sources is a difficult combo though, if coal and gas also have to go at some point.
And the other half is coal?
Coal <3
Here is the thing tho, those 50% are only on paper. Germany has very high wind production in the North, and is selling this to dumping prices to their neighbors a lot of the times because the infrastructure is not there to transport it to the industry heavy south that would need it.
​
This is also why Germany still has so much coal plants running, because they are in places, where the energy is needed, the wind energy is not.
Plus, the south is activly sabotaging building renewables and delaying the big power line from north to south for probably decades now.
I hope recent storage innovations like this work out well:
[https://hiu-batteries.de/en/research/prof-birgit-esser-inexpensive-flow-battery-for-wind-sun/](https://hiu-batteries.de/en/research/prof-birgit-esser-inexpensive-flow-battery-for-wind-sun/)
[https://www.dw.com/en/organic-battery-the-long-awaited-breakthrough-in-energy-storage/video-64364838](https://www.dw.com/en/organic-battery-the-long-awaited-breakthrough-in-energy-storage/video-64364838)
https://www.tuvsud.com/en-gb/press-and-media/2023/april/tuev-sued-conducts-technical-due-diligence-for-sustainable-energy-storage-solutions-made-by-cmblu
Basically a small company named CMBlu has invented a type of flow battery that does not use lithium or vanadium or zinc or anything rare, just lignin obtained as a byproduct from pulp mills. Long duration storage. Fully recyclable.
This year they are expanding into the US too and supplying their tech to an UK consortium led by MSE.
Now it’s time to increase electricity consumption and diminish oil and gas consumption in transportation and industry!
r/europe fantasizing about nuclear being the future and not renewables is always hilarious to see
Italian redditors are absolutely obsessed With nuclear and are gonna be so mad at this lol. GG germany, i envy you soo much. I Wish Italy had your politicians Instead of an army of corrupted disgusting Rich boomers Who don’t care about enviorment or people at all
the amazing things you can do when every single household pays $1,000/mo just for power.
mind blowing what money can achieve if you force it out of peoples wallets.
And energy prices go higher and higher. Fuck the greens.