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We have lots of solar in Germany (50% renewables in our electricity mix) and we’re paying the highest price per kWh in the whole world. Let alone that we’re em
by cbmuser 6y ago
We have lots of solar in Germany (50% renewables in our electricity mix) and we’re paying the highest price per kWh in the whole world.
Let alone that we’re emitting 400 grams of CO2 per kWh on average while it’s just 50 grams on average in France.
- Jweb_Guru 6y agoGermany counts a bunch of incredibly dumb stuff as "renewables," including wood burning, which is just one of the many reasons Germany's emissions are far higher than France's (another is continued support for coal use for political reasons). It gets only about 10% of its energy from solar.
- xiphias2 6y agoSadly it's not just Germany, the whole EU is transitioning from coal to wood in poor parts of the countries, and governments are helping in it.
- _Microft 6y agoSince you seem to be from Germany, you must be fully aware that the emissions problem we have is one caused by our coal power plants and not by renewables (which also means that the emissions stats that you repeatedly posted here no longer feel like an honest mistake but rather disingenuous) You are also conflating production cost and end user prices.
- antr 6y agoThe price of electricity is not only generation cost, which represent c. 30% of your total energy bill.
- hokkos 6y agoTaxes to pay feed in tarif, contract for difference for renewable being another 30%
- oezi 6y agoThe reason for this is that we bankrolled much of the initial trajectory of cost decline. Unfortunately, we stopped investing heavily when prices dropped due the black/red grand coalition not wanting to risk losing votes over potentially higher power prices. Now we are stuck at high Co2 and high prices.
- literallycancer 6y agoYour cost is due to how the policies are set up, not because the tech is not up to par. Countries that invested in solar early on have a similar problem, where they funded the progress but their own solar installations are now outdated. To get out of solar now would be a mistake since you'd not even reap the benefits of that early investment.