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I'd be curious how that compares to other countries?
by e4e5 3y ago
I'd be curious how that compares to other countries?
- RobinL 3y agohttps://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029?ref_... > Solar deployment is now happening at a roughly $500B annualized rate. Which technology deployments were larger than this? The US's aircraft production during WWII seems to have peaked at maybe $400B (inflation-adjusted). Global datacenter construction appears to be maybe $200B/year. More here: https://about.bnef.com/blog/renewable-energy-investment-hits-record-breaking-358-billion-in-1h-2023/ https://about.bnef.com/blog/renewable-energy-investment-hits...
- tetris11 3y agoIf you can, you should: https://nitter.net/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029 https://nitter.net/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029
- tetris11 3y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capacity?country=CHN~IND~ESP~BRA~MEX~CHL~USA~GBR~FRA~DEU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci... China leads in steepest trend, but US is second (though much lower down)
- scandinavian 3y agoHere's a chart per capita, which is often more interesting: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHN~IND~ESP~BRA~MEX~CHL~USA~GBR~FRA~DEU https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...
- yread 3y agobit misleading not to add the top two (Australia and Netherlands) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-capita?tab=chart&country=CHN~IND~ESP~BRA~MEX~CHL~USA~GBR~FRA~DEU~NLD~AUS https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...
- cinntaile 3y agoThat's generation per capita, not installed capacity per capita.
- roenxi 3y agoAnd India at #4 is one to watch. There are a lot of people there who will benefit from cheap energy. It is a bit funny how Germany seems to be floundering thanks to the Energiewende. In hindsight it looks like a clear mistake to have gone in so hard without waiting until it made economic sense.
- jansan 3y agoTake a look at a map, India is far, far more to the south than Germany. I have the feeling that some Germans would see solar power as a panacea even if they lived on the north pole.
- atwrk 3y agoChina did 86GW last year and now stands at a cumulated 393GW: https://www.statista.com/statistics/279504/cumulative-installed-capacity-of-solar-power-in-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/279504/cumulative-instal...
- junofan 3y agoWorth noting half the world’s polysilicon is produced in Xinjiang, possibly using thousands of Uyghur slaves: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/images/storyboards/solar/Solar.pdf https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/images/storyboar...
- _trampeltier 3y agoChina is number one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-solar-power-by-country-in-2021/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-solar-power-by-count...
- jansan 3y agoGermany will have around 12 GW new solar power installed in 2023 (with about 1/4th of the US population), so a little bit more per capita than the US. It is important to know that almost all of Germany is more to the north than the most northern parts of the US (except Alaska), so solar power in Germany is much less efficient and in winter almost completely useless.
- atwrk 3y agoFortunately wind power is almost exactly anticyclic to solar in Germany, so cumulated they produce a nearly flat curve over the seasons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Wind-power-germany-1.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Wind-pow...
- huijzer 3y agoDo you have more information about that? If you average the power over a month, then yes it might be true in the plot, but I suspect it's less smooth in real-time.
- atwrk 3y agoHere's a great graph with finer than hourly data: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electricity-data/chart/power_generation/24.08.2023/07.09.2023/today/ https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/service/recent-electric... It doesn't average out on an intraday basis, but neither does consumption, which has its peaks during the day. I know someone working at an energy provider heavy on renewables, there they use gas turbines (=biomass) for compensating heavy fluctuations, because those are online in a few minutes.
- nixass 3y ago> solar power in Germany is much less efficient and in winter almost completely useless. Good thing they were thinking ahead and shut down all nuclear plants they had. Fricking unbelievable
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- euroderf 3y agoI'd like to see articles start inserting a "per capita" figure.
- RobinL 3y agoAnd also a 'percentage of GDP'
- NikkiA 3y agoUK Peak yesterday was 7GW