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Solar would produce enough power in winter. Germany is europe's top solar energy producer and is at a latitude similar to Alaska.
by PowerElectronix 2mo ago
Solar would produce enough power in winter. Germany is europe's top solar energy producer and is at a latitude similar to Alaska.
- eigenspace 2mo agoThe very very northern tip of Germany reaches almost as far north as the southernmost tip of the Alaskan panhandle, but most of Germany is more like mid-south Canada on a latitude basis. Northern Germany is much more specialized into wind power, and the south is more solar intensive (though solar is more evenly spread throughout the country than Wind, thanks to ease of installation, and the fact that it still produces tonnes of electricity in the summer). Solar should be built in Alaska, but wind and hydro is what should be actively subsidized and supported by the government. The market can take care of solar penetration in Alaska if you let it.
- cycomanic 2mo agoOne additional tidbit of info. While the northern coast in Germany has certainly more wind, a reason why wind falls off so strongly towards the south, are the policies of the CSU party in Bavaria, which though not quite as bad as trump has been running Anti-Wind policies and making wind installations extremely difficult to build.
- perpetuallunch 2mo agoAt what cost? Doesn’t Germany now have some of the most costly electricity in the OECD? For a while there we kept hearing about plug in balcony solar in Germany. Electricity generation used to be a solved problem, now it’s so bad people want to connect solar on their apartment balcony. And we’re supposed to believe this is progress?
- bryanlarsen 2mo agoGermany's high electricity prices are set by the cost of imported LNG.
- perpetuallunch 2mo ago[dead]
- bryanlarsen 2mo agoEven if they hadn't shut down nuclear, they still would be reliant on LNG imports, and being the most expensive power, LNG would be the price-setter in Germany. LNG is NOT cheap. piped non-liquid natural gas is cheap, but once you liquify it, store it and ship it, it's very expensive.