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Don't talk such nonsense. The capacity additions in renewables are so enormous that by 2030 most European countries will run so much surplus during summer that
by oezi 3y ago
Don't talk such nonsense. The capacity additions in renewables are so enormous that by 2030 most European countries will run so much surplus during summer that we will likely not know what to do with it. TFA talks about tripling in solar in Germany until 2030!
The only chance for needing any more coal in 2030 will be as a contingency if Putin is still fighting in Ukraine at that point.
- jorvi 3y agoA surplus is useless without storage, and with projected battery production capacity having enough grid storage is a pie in the sky. Every western country + China will be clamoring for batteries, on top of virtually every industry. The only solution I hear from “green” people is the “future battery technology” MacGuffin.
- oezi 3y agoThe surplus in summer during noon isn't useless bit rather means that during morning and early evening we need less fossils. This is the main point of all of this, remember? A surplus also leads to reduced prices which enables novel uses such as charging an electric vehicle for very little money. This replaces CO2. The market will be clever to profit from the available cheap electricity.
- jorvi 3y agoThe surplus is already so bad that residential solar gets automatically turned off en-masse to protect the grid.