Almost 70% of electricity produced in Germany over the last 24 hours has come from wind power, with coal making up just 10% of total generation.

by NotARealHuman88

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  2. And basically 0 % from solar. All these hundreds of billions we pumped into solar didn’t help us at all the last 24 hours.

  3. No sarcasm or cynism intended, but I’d be curious to see for how long it’s been producing electricity with 70% renewable (electricity maps only shows the last 24h).

  4. Despite this, german carbon emissions per unit of energy produced are around three times higher than UK, France, Spain, Finland etc due to covering the baseload with coal instead of nuclear, even in these last 24 hours. The mean over the entire year is much, much worse. (same source, electricity maps)

  6. These kind of posts underline how unreliable intermittent renewables like wind and solar are.

  7. I admire this, I just wish there was technology that stores this energy. It still needs to be consumed ASAP and cannot be stored, unless I’m missing something?

    All in all, I think this is the right path, but energy storage still seems vastly underdeveloped. IMO this could in fact improve prices for end-consumers and businesses a lot, and this is exactly what is needed right now.

  8. Funny how we always get these updates about electricity mix on a day after massive wind.

  9. Sehr gut. Love to see more renewable energy sources, but also keep the landscape in balance.
    Now a good approach to store when wind is less abundant.

  10. Is nuclear even viable when there are heat waves and there is less water in the rivers? Because a lot talk about that those numbers just work because there was a lot of wind. Just to compare the negative sides of each!

  11. That’s great *as long as the wind blows*. The problem is that more often not it doesn’t.

  12. Oh nice another german electricity production post.

    I will just point out that even in these perfect conditions French electricity production is spewing less carbon per kwH to the atmosphere and leave.

  14. Wasn’t it like two weeks back that someone was ridiculed for posting numbers making Germany look bad due to lack of wind/solar?

  16. Germany has fallen. A country that likes more the coal energy that the nuclear such as Spain have a future more black than a black hole.

  17. Why do woth renweables always look at wind and solar which are unpredictable. What about water? North of Germany is flat, but are all rivers in the south used to their full potential?

    And you can better predict hydro production.

  18. Nothing to be proud of. Even at 70% wind you’re still at 188 lol

  19. It could’ve been 15% nuclear instead of 10% coal and 5% gas. It would’ve been under 100g on a regular basis instead of posts celebrating going under 190g. There’s absolutely no excuse for their idiocy

    According to this [same website](https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE) that you’re using, that 10% coal accounts for 55% of germany’s total carbon emissions for the day, the 5% gas is 21%, and the 0.5% oil is 3%. So if there was nuclear instead of those, the carbon emission would be 79% lower: 40g

  22. Those numbers are not something to be proud of haha, the only stat you can be proud of is how much electricity you buy from Norway, where 98% of all produced is clean.

  23. Can we stop with cherry picking about Germany. Its dishonest from both sides.

    Side one – Germany good: Look, 70% renewable/low carbon. Yes, but we really should only care about long term, and renewables have allowed Germany that coal goes from 60-ish% down to 30-ish%. But, this was also partly because NatGas, so, fossil fuel went from 70-ish% down to 50-ish%.

    Side two – Germany bad: NUCLEAR, NUCLEAR, look at France. Well, nuclear failed France when it was needed the most, due to various reasons. And what is currently extremely important, nuclear in Europe takes at least a decade to be built. Unlike solar and wind, which is at least 5-10x faster.

    Now, if anyone wants reasonable approach, yes, Germany fucked-up with closure of Nuclear. They should have kept what they has, as long as possible. Nuclear was around 165-170 TWh per year. In 2022, coal was 179 TWh, so in pure numbers, they could have closed coal. But that decision was made over a decade ago, and as the saying goes, no use of crying over spilled milk. And new Nuclear is not a smart choice. Renewables are killing any other source being cheaper then anything. And currently Germany is doing it right, consistently increasing share of renewables. And to the Germany bad crowd, I would also like to point out that, if not for Germany pre 2010, we would be much, much later with solar. Their subsidies at the time, helped solar going from extremely expensive, to, this occasionally makes sense, which lead to todays, this is cheapest source of electricity. That actually probably reduced more CO2 then what was added due to nuclear being closed.

    So, yeah, its annoying from both sides. Some are doing better then Germany (UK actually comes to mind form 80 to 40% in fossil fuel). Some had good policies way back when climate wasn’t something that everyone is worried about (France). Some are doing worse (Poland).

  24. Can we stop cherry picking and start looking at overall data?

  25. no surprise for yesterday it was windy as hell yesterday the whole day

  28. LOL, what a typical libleft eurofederalist manipulation. Last 24hrs have been huge atmospheric front with high winds sweeping eastwards across Germany and Poland. So in this extreme, short-lived moment the wind power can clock up the energy production mix but it’s an outlier situation. For the rest of the year it is not the case.

    Germany is actually hastily reopening their coal mines and importing coal, eagerly awaiting the moment when Russia defeats Ukraine, so that they could return to their cordial relationship, business as usual and reopen damaged Nord Stream.

    Meanwhile, they are trying to enforce, pardon me – lobby, other countries (most notably Poland, where they installed their puppet Tusk as PM) to pass legislations mandating installing wind power farms that would use Siemens products. This is aimed not only at shot-term help for nearly bankrupt Siemens but longer term to rebuild dominating position in the energy market after fiasco of German-Russian gas trust.

    TL;DR: I call it a manipulated bullshit.

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