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Last year they passed law to reduce heating temperatures. Using radiators too much could be fined. > Germany's coal use is now at a historic minimum, With coa

Last year they passed law to reduce heating temperatures. Using radiators too much could be fined. > Germany's coal use is now at a historic minimum, With coal powerplants in hot standby for wind? And imports from other countries that use coal heavily? > Solar, wind ... exciting and fastest developing That is the point! It should not be exiting and developing. By now it should be booring and reliable.

lispm 3y ago
> Using radiators too much could be fined. Source?
locallost 3y ago
The law was not changed to reduce heating temperatures since you can regulate temperature yourself. The law defines a minimal temperature that needs to be reached, otherwise you are entitled to have the heating fixed or get your rent reduced. This minimum was reduced. Ironically this helped my neighbor finally get her heating fixed since she realized she can complain about this to her landlord and they fixed it fast once she did that. Again, coal use is at a historic minimum and this is easy to find. Here is the chart for electricity production until 2022 [1] and here is the data for the first half of this year [2]: > The electricity production from lignite was down 21 percent, hard coal was down 23 percent, natural gas was down 4 percent, and nuclear declined by 57 percent, compared to 2022 values. As far as I know heating with coal is negligible. I don't get your point about renewables - their expansion has been on a basically exponential curve, but the starting point was practically zero. The world is installing massive amounts and will continue to do so - Germany played a large role in that. [1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig2-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2022.png?itok=Ux7oiZ60 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... [2] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...

lispm 3y ago

> Using radiators too much could be fined. Source?

locallost 3y ago

The law was not changed to reduce heating temperatures since you can regulate temperature yourself. The law defines a minimal temperature that needs to be reached, otherwise you are entitled to have the heating fixed or get your rent reduced. This minimum was reduced. Ironically this helped my neighbor finally get her heating fixed since she realized she can complain about this to her landlord and they fixed it fast once she did that. Again, coal use is at a historic minimum and this is easy to find. Here is the chart for electricity production until 2022 [1] and here is the data for the first half of this year [2]: > The electricity production from lignite was down 21 percent, hard coal was down 23 percent, natural gas was down 4 percent, and nuclear declined by 57 percent, compared to 2022 values. As far as I know heating with coal is negligible. I don't get your point about renewables - their expansion has been on a basically exponential curve, but the starting point was practically zero. The world is installing massive amounts and will continue to do so - Germany played a large role in that. [1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig2-gross-power-production-germany-1990-2022.png?itok=Ux7oiZ60 https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... [2] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2023/german-net-power-generation-in-first-half-of-2023-renewable-energy-share-of-57-percent.html https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/...