Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear...
by jplayer01 on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:10PM
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Yeah, the Energiewende is an absolute farce. The government exited nuclear while utterly gutting the German PV industry. It's mind-boggling.
Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear...
by cygx on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @02:28PM
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Some relevant numbers (TWh) from that graphic:
2002 2018
Total 503 545
Coal + Oil 253 205
Gas 40 44
Nuclear 156 72
Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear...
by jhayward on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:39PM
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So, they've successfully got rid of about 50% of nuclear and 20% of coal by adding a very small amount of gas generation. Presumably the rest is coming from renewables. Sounds like a pretty good progress report.
Re:Progress has been limited on Germany's shift from nuclear...
by cygx on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @05:10PM
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Presumably the rest is coming from renewables.
No reason not to complete the picture, I guess:
2002 2018
Total 503 545
Coal+Oil 253 205
Nuclear 156 72
Gas 40 44
Biomass 4 45
Wind+Solar+Hydro 39 177
Other 10 3
I think the history is one of a failed economic subsidy program that accidentally accelerated the PV-industry by a few years.
There were several growing PV manufacturers in germany up to around 2011/2012. In that timeframe the manufacturers were all busy building new factories, but the government noticed that the subsidy program became large enough to be expensive and suddenly severely cut the subsidies. None of the manufacturers survived that, the remains were sold to the chinese.