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Germany to Become Net Power Importer for the First Time Since 2002
- dane-pgp 5y agoPeople often present Germany's power situation in very simplistic and inaccurate ways, so it's good to check the actual current data and historic trends. This page has some very helpful charts: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
- downrightmike 5y agoThey still burn something and produce carbon for most of their power 1/3 is lignite, brown coal, doesn't burn as hot or 'clean' and you need more of it. Hopefully they can leach off of France's nuclear power.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> They still burn something and produce carbon for most of their power Where did you get that statistic from? According to the 2021 data[0], Germany got 40.9% of its power from renewables and 11.9% from nuclear. I suppose you could be arguing that biomass "produces carbon", although that's not true in a net sense, or you could be arguing that these figures only relate to electricity production, not all types of energy, but that's also misleading because the article is about electricity. Still, I would agree if you had said "nearly half", and if you had said "1/5" as the statistic for lignite. As you say, hopefully the extra imports come from France's excess production of nuclear energy, and not from a country whose grid (at the time of import) is even more CO2-producing than Germany's. [0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig3-share-energy-sources-gross-german-power-production-2021.png?itok=IIrDbGVd https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...