For the first time renewables provided the majority of electricity in Germany in 2023, while electricity from coal fell to an all-time low
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For the first time renewables provided the majority of electricity in Germany in 2023, while electricity from coal fell to an all-time low
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Source: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/renewable_share/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&legendItems=10&share=ren_share_total
And yes, Germany was a net importer of electricity this year, but that’s a good thing. Electricity trade is a feature, not a bug. If there is excess electricity in the European grid it’s better to import it than to fire up additional domestic coal power plants.
Good news
I’m surprised coal still makes up such a large percentage of Germany’s total energy usage. In the UK it’s been almost completely phased out in favour of gas and wind.
https://imgur.com/a/Xt6GChY
Good!
But not great.
Germany can should improve this as soon and as much as possible.
Even my country stands pretty good here and it’s a piece of shit in investments because of the huge corruption.
*Insert generic comment giving Germany shit for their nuclear energy policy*
No congrats though, just put the fucking reactors back on tho pls 🙏
Renewables =/= clean.
10% was biomass. I don’t know how they managed it, but industrial lobbies were pretty efficient on this one. It’s an heresy to see this as a way to go greener while it’s still emitting over 200g of CO2 per kWh.
And coal, that emits over 1kg of COE per kWh remains the second production way behind wind. Can tell whatever you want, phasing out nuclear was a shitty decision from an environmental perspective.
I don’t like this kind of figures because they don’t include import+export, it should be included so that value of energy transmission is shown clearly
What they aren’t showing here is that overall energy use was down in Germany in 2023. So it’s just the same % of a smaller total. Again showing the folly of shutting down the nuclear plants
https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&year=-1&interval=year
Nice, nice. Why then home electricity price is record high?
While prices for consumers are through the roof.
Having lived in Germany, it comes at a huge cost to the end consumer.
I paid half my rent in electricity.
What this masturbatiom forgets to say it’s that it was SO windy that even Poland managed to make more electricity from wind than coal at few points in time.
Yet in the long term, both countries are in top 3 polluters per MWh in the EU.
The comments about the amazing achievements of the transition of Germany’s electric grid to carbon-free always turn into a sh*t-show.
It’s heartwarming to know that at this pace the arguments of people screeching about nuclear will be irrelevant in 4 or 5 years.
This is a ground breaking success!
43,7% fossil, 1% nuclear… Very clean Germany…
Is Germany importing electricity from somewhere ?
good job !
Electricity, not energy. The difference is huge.
And you would think amount of electricity to go up year by year.
Germany is in the right path. This will only get better.
But we need to work on an efficient way to store energy when renewables produce more than the energy we need, so we have that energy for when renewables are not producing that much and the demand of energy is higher.
Why is this being celebrated? Is the goal to produce power with wind? Or to actually reduce emissions? Because Germany had some of the worst *per capita* emissions of any country in europe this year, regardless of how much power they produced with wind. This is green washing 101 and it’s literally the reason we will not stop climate change and a climate catastrophe, people are too fuckin busy smelling their own farts to actually make *meaningful* change.
Slovakia had 1/4 of the per capita emissions of Germany this year! And guess what? 0 wind power. Just some green, reliable nuclear power.
Germany could reopen 8 GW of nuclear power generation within a year, that would be something to celebrate.
What happened to the price over time?
That has a much bigger impact on people’s lives.
The fact Germany is still using any meaningful amount of coal at this point is crazy to me, it’s incredibly dirty and far more expensive, why? I know the Greens somehow convinced Germany that clean Nuclear energy is bad or whatever, but coal?
Good job to Germany, by eliminating nuclear your Carbon footprint per kWh produced is only nearly 5 times greater than that of France 🤡 way to go green !