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Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by phoobot on Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:27AM (#15998943)
I don't understand how these electricity production numbers are to be understood. Neither net nor gross energy production seem to match the numbers depicted for Germany. Why does it say, that Germany is producing 61% of its power from wind energy, when most other sources only report around 40%?

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l... https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/l...

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Re:Live CO2 emissions of electricity consumption by Strom on Sunday December 24, 2017 @05:31AM (#15998953)
The key to understanding is time. Those charts your linked show averages for whole years. However the original link in question here is live data. Based on the charts it seems the percentage is updated every 15 minutes.
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