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> renewables have failed to produce a noticeable change in my part of europe More electricity in Europe comes from renewables than from either nuclear or fossi
by crote 6mo ago
> renewables have failed to produce a noticeable change in my part of europe
More electricity in Europe comes from renewables than from either nuclear or fossil, with renewables rapidly approaching 50% market share. Several countries (even the non-hydro-heavy ones) are already showing multi-day periods where renewable electricity exceeds 100% of demand.
If your part of Europe isn't showing a noticeable change, perhaps it might be because your part isn't trying?
- StreamBright 6mo agoRenewables are not suitable for replacing nuclear, coal and other traditional sources of energy due to the fact that you cannot control production.
- abenga 6mo agoWhy do you need to control production? Why not over provision and store?
- StreamBright 6mo agoHow?
- looperhacks 6mo agoThere's this thing called battery
- Jensson 6mo agoBattery storage is still very inefficient and doesn't scale to cover the winters in more northern latitutes.
- magicalhippo 6mo ago> Why do you need to control production? Because there's a minimum demand you must be able to supply. Here in Norway we get just about all our power from hydro, and we have a lot of pumped storage lakes which we use as "water batteries". However, eventually hydro relies on water falling from the sky. Not long ago there had been some really dry years, and our storage was running at record lows. Had the subsequent year been dry we'd be in a real pickle. Another aspect here is that production is one thing, but grid-scale renewable production rarely happens right next to the primary consumers, and has to be transported. And the grid might not be able to. Again here in Norway, we had a situation not long ago where the price difference between the north of Norway and the south of Norway was 100x because the south struggled to produce while the north was overflowing, but there was insufficient capacity on the grid to send all the energy being produced up north down south.
- triceratops 6mo agoTell me you've been in coma the past 10 years without telling me you've been in a coma the past 10 years.
- Moldoteck 6mo agoYes. On the other hand nuclear is still single biggest source of power in EU, despite german phaseout) There is still not a single country matching french emissions with ren alone if it doesnt have hydro/geothermal