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The German plan could never work. They installed a lot of solar which does not produce much energy in the winter. They installed a lot of wind which does not
by kennethh 5y ago
The German plan could never work.
They installed a lot of solar which does not produce much energy in the winter.
They installed a lot of wind which does not help when there is cold, since then there is usually not much wind.
In audition they did not buy enough gas. Germans have been fooled by people who do not know how to use their calculators.
See this electricity map for realtime overview of production, consumption and export/imports.
https://app.electricitymap.org/ https://app.electricitymap.org/
This Norwegian article show historical average for Europe and current prices picture. https://e24.no/olje-og-energi/i/nWbMBo/nord-norge-hadde-billigst-stroem-i-europa-i-fjor https://e24.no/olje-og-energi/i/nWbMBo/nord-norge-hadde-bill...
- zibzab 5y agoEverytime there is a energy crisis the same group of people are quick to blame it on green energy. See for example the Texas outage. Sweden is moving to greener energy and is currently exporting electricity to Germany and Poland. How come it works here but not down there? Because bad planing, political sabotage and a whole lot of NIMBY.
- petre 5y agoThey're not blaming on green energy. They're blaming it on utopian Energiewende pedalled by shortsighted anti nuclear Greens. We'll see how their eco hipster green foreign affairs secretary handles this Russian crisis.
- lm28469 5y agoMost of Sweden's electricity supply comes from hydro and nuclear though. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Swedens-electricity-production-1_fig1_311706711 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Swedens-electricity-prod... Hydro is maxed out basically everywhere already and nuclear is being shut down in Germany, it doesn't take a genius to see it can't work. We can't keep increasing our demand while killing the only large/cheap/on demand energy source to rely on intermittent ones. It might work if we decreased our consumption by a lot but this doesn't seem to be the plan
- sampo 5y ago> Sweden is moving to greener energy and is currently exporting electricity to Germany and Poland. How come it works here but not down there? Sweden has 3.5x more hydro than wind energy (in TWh produced). Germany has 7x less hydro than wind. Sweden can easily use their large hydro reserves to balance out the fluctuations in wind power output. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany