Germany already reached its solar installation target for 2023, with 12 GW of solar capacity installed so far this year. It is on track to even reach its target for 2024

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  2. Excellent news, every solar panel installed and every battery set up is a finger to the petro-autocracies that have too long meddled in our affairs.

  3. cheaper and cheaper panels play a role in that

    Solar panels have gotten 30-40 % cheaper since the beginning of the year

    [https://www.pvxchange.com/Preisindex](https://www.pvxchange.com/Preisindex)

    i find the solar pannels here in Germany cheaper than in my own country, Romania

    you can buy 15kwh of high-efficiency solar panels ,36 panels in total, for 2700 euros

    [https://www.solarplatten24.de/products/dah-solar-dhm-54×16-400w-420w](https://www.solarplatten24.de/products/dah-solar-dhm-54×16-400w-420w)

    (thats a random combo from this site,but you can try other brands offers as well)

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    its the instalation+certification+inverter+battery storage costs that drives costs for solar power instalations to 5 digits

  4. If only we had one decarbonated energy that is not subject to the weather, ho wait, nuclear !

  5. Wind mills and solar panels as energy pet projects and gas and coal as reliable energy backbone is expensive and emits plenty of CO2. We need reliable, cheap and clean energy in massive quantities.

  7. If only this would translate to cheaper power. We have the most expensive power worldwirde

  8. While that are amazing news, using the word “already” even though the whole year only has a little over a month left (where outdoor work is the lowest due to weather) is kinda odd.

  9. Nice to see this, I would love to see nuclear energy development as well.

  10. So, from the data I’ve found, 336 billion Euros have been invested into renewables since 2001 in Germany (from Statista). If all the money was put towards nuclear power plants, you could’ve built around 30 power plants with 2660MW capacity, which would be 540TWh of electricity a year. How much electricity did Germany use in 2021? 511.6TWh. It would more than cover the entire demand + I didn’t mention all the already shut off nuclear capacity and other ways of power generation that existed, and still exist. No problems with storing the electricity and you have it available all day.

    *I also calculated each power plant with a cost of 10b Euros, which is taking costs that would be way over budget already. With more efficient regulation,… you could cut costs a LOT more.

  11. 12 GW solar is about 60 MWh per day and this is about 70 PJ per year.

    Germany’s yearly energy consumption is about 80000 PJ.

    This solar “wunderwaffe” it less than 0.1% of German consumption.

  12. yeah, but there is no money for further subsidies from here on out, like, at all.

  15. It’s almost December and the winter season is already here. Not much more installations of solar are going to happen this year. So it’s not surprising that they already reached their yearly plan for 2023.

  17. With these economic vibes it is better to reach 2024 earlier, because who knows how shitty the next years will be…

    Everyone is cutting on climate goals at the moment, let’s keep pushing on solar at least

  18. Post this in the climate change group. There’s too much pessimism there.

  19. The single best argument against nuclear isn’t the overhyped (and overblown) safety concerns. It is a simple cost calculation. Nuclear is expensive and it will take tremendous amount of investment to bring the cost down. Meanwhile solar and wind costs just keep falling – and capacity is booming.

    As battery prices are also now declining, the storage question is less difficult.

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