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While non-hydroelectric renewables have gone up, fossil fuel usage remains largely flat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:Germany_Ele
by sir_bearington 6y ago
While non-hydroelectric renewables have gone up, fossil fuel usage remains largely flat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:Germany_Electricity_production_1991-2017_(EIA).png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...
Germany's CO2 intensity of electricity isn't actually very good. It's worse than the UK, and 7 times more than France.
- jhayward 6y agoYour use of that graph is misleading. It's not a graph of CO2 emissions.
- sir_bearington 6y agoThe above comment didn't say CO2 emissions, it said that coal use is "down enormously" with a "tiny bit of gas generation growth". The reality is that overall fossil fuel use remains largely the same, coal reductions were matched by natural gas increases. Likewise, CO2 reductions aren't very large, and is still above average for EU member states: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-intensity-6#tab-googlechartid_googlechartid_chart_111_filters=%7B%22rowFilters%22%3A%7B%7D%3B%22columnFilters%22%3A%7B%22pre_config_date%22%3A%5B2018%5D%7D%3B%22sortFilter%22%3A%5B%22index_2018%22%5D%7D https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/co2-emission-i...