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1)You forget the energy efficiency / less energy consumption part 2)You forget the demand-response and energy storage part 3)" it will be extremely expensive
by skitout 7y ago
1)You forget the energy efficiency / less energy consumption part
2)You forget the demand-response and energy storage part
3)" it will be extremely expensive to cover all these power requirements in renewables only" ; a lot of existing power plants are old would had been closed anyways... and renewable are becoming the cheapest new capacity, so I don't seen the extremely expensive part
I am not a big fan of this German "energy transition"... but often I find sloppy the critics addressed to this transition
- s5ma6n 7y ago1) Energy efficiency will surely be better over time but population is also increasing and migration rate to Germany is increasing as well. So this will probably even out the efficiency improvements. 2) Energy storage is a very difficult and expensive task. Germany is able to store energy around 7.6 GW[1], this number is comical next to the TWh numbers we are discussing. 3) You should perhaps read a bit more about this here [2] to be informed. It is quite obvious and proven from technological perspective and material costs that renewable energy is right now more expensive to produce and still causes more human fatalities than nuclear energy. [1] : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/energy-storage-and-energiewende https://www.cleanenergywire.org/dossiers/energy-storage-and-... [2] : https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/how-much-does-germanys-energy-transition-cost https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/how-much-does-ger...