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That's simply wrong. Renewable energy for electricity is at 46% last year. Up from 6% in 2000. Coal has been declining a lot from 2000 (when the Energiewende st
by lispm 7y ago
That's simply wrong. Renewable energy for electricity is at 46% last year. Up from 6% in 2000. Coal has been declining a lot from 2000 (when the Energiewende startet) to today.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Energiemix_Deutschland.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Energiem...
- zeeZ 7y agoFor current values, check by switching to the country tab: https://m-transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGenerationPerProductionType/show https://m-transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGenerat...
- renaudg 7y agoYou're just focusing on the wrong metric. Because coal is so bad in terms of carbon intensity (800 gCO2/kwH), Germany's greenhouse gas emissions figures are still terrible on average. "Why Aren't Renewables Decreasing Germany's Carbon Emissions?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent-renewables-decreasing-germanys-carbon-emissions/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent... "Why solar and wind won’t make much difference to carbon dioxide emissions" https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/solar-wind-energy-carbon-dioxide-emissions/ https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/solar-wind-energy-carbon-dioxid... "German electricity was nearly 10 times dirtier than France's in 2016" http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-electricity-was-nearly-10-times-dirtier-than-frances-in-2016 http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-e...
- lispm 7y ago> You're just focusing on the wrong metric. I don't and you are posting links to outdated articles.