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That is basically the plan. Build up renewables, and as soon as there is enough capacity, produce "green" gas - either methane or hydrogen (personally I think m
by _ph_ 5y ago
That is basically the plan. Build up renewables, and as soon as there is enough capacity, produce "green" gas - either methane or hydrogen (personally I think methane wins, because it is easier to handle).
Which also was the point why there was such a large push for gas in recent years. Not only is it cleaner than coal, but facilities built up for gas can be used for green methane and also possible use with hydrogen was considered.
- andy_ppp 5y agoOkay so it’s just capacity and will to do it? Should be relatively straight forward no? It’s not like we don’t have the technology or does it need too much capacity?
- _ph_ 5y agoRight. If the previous government had not throttled down the built-up of renewable sources, we probably would be close to phasing out coal already. The technology is fundamentally there, we just need to build way more wind generators and set up solar cells. Germany installed 10GW of solar peak power in 2012 and 5 GW of wind peak power in 2016. Compare that to a grid load of up to 80 GW. The technology to produce green gas is existing too, but not rolled out widely - which hangs on having enough renewable electricity.