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The end of coal has not happened on Germany, who went back to using massive amounts of coal as Russian gas stopped being available : 33.2% of all German electri
by VSerge 3y ago
The end of coal has not happened on Germany, who went back to using massive amounts of coal as Russian gas stopped being available : 33.2% of all German electricity came from coal in 2022.
https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2022.pdf https://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2022...
(slide 17 braunkohle + steinkohle)
- b3orn 3y agoI'd say it's slowly happening. There was a large drop in 2019[0] by around 25% (~50TWh) from 2018, ignoring the 2020 drop (around 25% ~33TWh compared to 2019) due to the pandemic, 2021 was almost back to 2019 levels (-3.5%) and 2022 was an increase by ~6.5% compared to 2019. Looking at quaterly data[1] it looks like 2023 will be well below 2019 again. And no, it hasn't been replaced by gas[2], although there's no clear trend in gas for electricity, if anything gas consumption is down due to the war. [0]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&legendItems=000001010000000000000&year=-1&stacking=stacked_absolute×lider=1&interval=year https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE... [1]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&legendItems=000001010000000000000&year=-1&stacking=stacked_absolute×lider=1&interval=quarter&quarter=-1 https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE... [2]: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&legendItems=000000000100000000000&year=-1&stacking=stacked_absolute×lider=1&interval=year https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...