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> Also to put things into perspective, Germany deployed as much solar in the last 3 years[1] as it had in total combined nuclear capacity ever This is clearly
by sampo 2y ago
> Also to put things into perspective, Germany deployed as much solar in the last 3 years[1] as it had in total combined nuclear capacity ever
This is clearly not true. Perhaps you a confusing the nominal capacity of solar plants to real electricity production?
Your source says "The total output of all solar plants rose to 82.2GW" / "Die Gesamtleistung aller Solaranlagen stieg auf 82,2 GW". Whereas in year 2000, Germany produced 170 TWh of electricity with nuclear power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#/media/File:Electricity_generation_in_Germany_by_energy_source.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany#...
- ben_w 2y ago170 TWh is the energy not the power, the area under the curve over the course of a year rather than the height of that curve at any given point. 170 TWh / 1 year is an average of 19.41 GW: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=170%20TWh%2F1%20year http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=170%20TWh%2F1%20year This output is a bit less than the PV capacity installed in Germany over the last 3 years, which is something like 27 GW depending on how accurate the estimates are for 2023. However, the capacity factor of German PV is about 10%, so the energy produced in 2022 by PV in Germany from 67 GW of capacity was just under 60 TWh delivered. It's probably going to have been around 85 TWh by the end of this year, based on forecasts for installation.