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Did you include the electricity needed for when all heating, transport, industry etc is electrified?
by Scarblac 3y ago
Did you include the electricity needed for when all heating, transport, industry etc is electrified?
- troupo 3y agoGood question as it makes the problem even worse. When I was writing this (before I forgot to send it on a cloudy morning) 140 GW of installed renewables in Germany are producing a grand total of 14GW of electricity. Germany needs 61GW. Right now it looks like all of Europe [1] is busy burning gas and coal because it's cloudy, and there's very little wind. So what happens when everything becomes electrical? Say, Germany needs 150GW of electricity, builds 500 GW of renewables, but those only produce 50GW (10% of installed capacity, like today)? [1] Except three countries with stable electricity generation: France (nuclear), Sweden (nuclear + hydro), Norway (hydro)
- Scarblac 3y agoAh, I misunderstood you completely, I thought you were saying that Germany had more renewables than it needs. Hopefully we build better ways for storing large amounts of energy.