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"Fossil fuel/non-renewables" would not have been the biggest, as you can see in the chart, "renewables" is bigger. Also they didn't split it into those subcateg

"Fossil fuel/non-renewables" would not have been the biggest, as you can see in the chart, "renewables" is bigger. Also they didn't split it into those subcategories so that solar wins, this technology split is a absolute standard way to differentiate between technologies which is always used, and it makes no sense (on that level of detail) to not differentiate between lignite, hard coal, gas and oil which all need different power plants, have different costs, different emission factors etc.

rayiner 7y ago
Splitting brown coal and hard coal is not standard and would change the result.
- aurelwu 7y ago
  It absolutely is standard in germany: German Environment Agency does it this way [0] Fraunhofer Society does it this way [1] German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy does it this way[2] Agora Energywende (important think tank) does it this way [3] AG Energiebilanzen does it this way [4] [0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/strommix-in-deutschland https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/strommix-in-deutschland [1] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/publications/studies/daten-zu-erneuerbaren-energien/ISE_Stromerzeugung_2018_Halbjahr.pdf#page=9 https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... [2] https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energiedaten/energiedaten-gesamt-pdf-grafiken.pdf__blob=publicationFile&v=38 https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energiedaten/ener... [3] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/power_generation/11.07.2019/14.07.2019/ https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p... [4] https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/ https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/
  - radford-neal 7y ago
    Everyone using the same split doesn't make the split non-arbitrary. Aren't small-scale hydro and large-scale hydro rather different things? Is large-scale hydro really "renewable", given that reservoirs fill with sediment, and their creation leads to lots of CO2 being released? Why is nuclear power "non-renewable"? It's renewable on any reasonable time scale, and doesn't produce CO2 during operation. Surely photovoltaic and thermal solar power are rather different technologies?
- imtringued 7y ago
  I have never seen a chart that doesn't split them.
- merb 7y ago
  most countries do not run brown coal. at least not as much as they used to.

rayiner 7y ago

Splitting brown coal and hard coal is not standard and would change the result.

aurelwu 7y ago
It absolutely is standard in germany: German Environment Agency does it this way [0] Fraunhofer Society does it this way [1] German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy does it this way[2] Agora Energywende (important think tank) does it this way [3] AG Energiebilanzen does it this way [4] [0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/strommix-in-deutschland https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/strommix-in-deutschland [1] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/publications/studies/daten-zu-erneuerbaren-energien/ISE_Stromerzeugung_2018_Halbjahr.pdf#page=9 https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p... [2] https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energiedaten/energiedaten-gesamt-pdf-grafiken.pdf__blob=publicationFile&v=38 https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energiedaten/ener... [3] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/power_generation/11.07.2019/14.07.2019/ https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p... [4] https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/ https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/
- radford-neal 7y ago
  Everyone using the same split doesn't make the split non-arbitrary. Aren't small-scale hydro and large-scale hydro rather different things? Is large-scale hydro really "renewable", given that reservoirs fill with sediment, and their creation leads to lots of CO2 being released? Why is nuclear power "non-renewable"? It's renewable on any reasonable time scale, and doesn't produce CO2 during operation. Surely photovoltaic and thermal solar power are rather different technologies?
imtringued 7y ago
I have never seen a chart that doesn't split them.
merb 7y ago
most countries do not run brown coal. at least not as much as they used to.