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The Russian war has only accelerated renewables deployment on the EU level, including making it easier legally to get permits. Because now also politically ther

The Russian war has only accelerated renewables deployment on the EU level, including making it easier legally to get permits. Because now also politically there is no time to wait to get off fossil fuels. Your data is faulty and you make bad judgements. The Energiewende has brought real change not only to Germany, but to the whole world. It's pretty much the reason all developed countries deploy only renewables and do that for the last couple years. Considering it's the only real chance the world has right now, it was a huge success.

realusername 3y ago
Oh yeah sure, for Germany I don't doubt it, they are doubling down and want to build even more gas pipelines. I think it's a lost cause and I don't think they will wake up until a real grid failure happens. For the other EU countries, there's now some pretty big thinking on the gas+renewable strategy which was promoted during the past decade and now came to a dead-end.
- locallost 3y ago
  The EU will add around 70GW [1] of renewables this year, again a strong increase to last year, which again was a strong increase to the year before. You can come up with any conclusion if you don't know the facts. What's crazy though is that smart people predicted this would happen before it happened [2]. I am not that smart, but it takes also a certain talent to live in the present and not realize what is happening. You will wake up in a very different world a few years from now. [1] https://www.pv-tech.org/eu-to-add-69gw-renewables-capacity-in-2023/ https://www.pv-tech.org/eu-to-add-69gw-renewables-capacity-i... [2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war-will-drive-a-faster-shift-to-clean-energy https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war...
  - realusername 3y ago
    This is clearly some very bad news, these will lock-in fossil fuel removal and will prevent decarbonization. I was thinking that the full gas+renewable strategy was over but indeed maybe not yet... I guess the visit of Von Der Leyen to the Azerbaijani dictator also sets up the tone of the strategy for the future, swapping one dicatatorship to the other to keep the gas running.

realusername 3y ago

Oh yeah sure, for Germany I don't doubt it, they are doubling down and want to build even more gas pipelines. I think it's a lost cause and I don't think they will wake up until a real grid failure happens. For the other EU countries, there's now some pretty big thinking on the gas+renewable strategy which was promoted during the past decade and now came to a dead-end.

locallost 3y ago
The EU will add around 70GW [1] of renewables this year, again a strong increase to last year, which again was a strong increase to the year before. You can come up with any conclusion if you don't know the facts. What's crazy though is that smart people predicted this would happen before it happened [2]. I am not that smart, but it takes also a certain talent to live in the present and not realize what is happening. You will wake up in a very different world a few years from now. [1] https://www.pv-tech.org/eu-to-add-69gw-renewables-capacity-in-2023/ https://www.pv-tech.org/eu-to-add-69gw-renewables-capacity-i... [2] https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war-will-drive-a-faster-shift-to-clean-energy https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war...
- realusername 3y ago
  This is clearly some very bad news, these will lock-in fossil fuel removal and will prevent decarbonization. I was thinking that the full gas+renewable strategy was over but indeed maybe not yet... I guess the visit of Von Der Leyen to the Azerbaijani dictator also sets up the tone of the strategy for the future, swapping one dicatatorship to the other to keep the gas running.