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"overprovisioning goes a far way already" Overprovisioning by how much? The installed capacity is over 60GW for wind and a bit under 60 GW for solar. This morn
by tjansen 4y ago
"overprovisioning goes a far way already"
Overprovisioning by how much? The installed capacity is over 60GW for wind and a bit under 60 GW for solar. This morning at 6 am, wind produced 3.9GW (6% of capacity) and solar 0.6GW (1%). At the same time, fossils produced 30GW and nuclear 4GW.
Source: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
- piva00 4y agoAnd right now, 15.24 wind is providing 16.8GW (26% of capacity, 21% of total electricity production in DE) and solar 23GW (38% capacity, 28% total production DE). A single data point at 6am doesn't tell much, neither does one at 15.24.
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- tjansen 4y agoThe 6am data point shows you that simple overprovisioning is not sufficient. DE would have needed about 500 GW wind capacity to replace fossil fuels at 6am. At least without having any other backup.