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Did you not notice that Germany signed multi-decade/multi-billion dollar deals with Russia for their natural gas. As Germany scaled up their solar and wind inf
by macspoofing 7y ago
Did you not notice that Germany signed multi-decade/multi-billion dollar deals with Russia for their natural gas.
As Germany scaled up their solar and wind infrastructure they NECESSARILY also scaled up their use of natural gas and also supplemented high demand with imported coal and nuclear power from their neighbours. There is no such thing as a solar/wind deployment without natural gas. Natural gas providers are now one of the biggest lobby group for solar and wind.
- cygx 7y agoGermany did scale up its natural gas usage - from 40TWh in 2002 to 44 TWh in 2018. That's a rounding error. In 2016, gas consumption in Germany was about industrial (38%) and domestic homes usage (31%), not electricity production (15%). It may very well be that gas is going to play a major role in replacing coal, but that has yet to happen - while nuclear energy has already been cut back significantly.