Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy reform in decades”

Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by Gravityloss on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @05:59PM (#30937979)

Does Spain export a lot of electricity? It could produce a lot of solar power. Even some in the winter, a lot in the summer when it's needed for air conditioning. One can think of it this way, if a solar panel is manufactured in or imported to EU, maybe it should be installed in the more sunny regions for maximum benefit.

Spain is also a wind power giant.

As comparison, Germany is not a great location for either wind or solar power.

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by spaniard89277 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @06:21PM (#30938199)

I heard that France refused several projects to connect the iberian system to central europe properly, not only electricity but also gas.

It isn't that spanish companies can get much help from the government's diplomacy (long topic), so someone else interested in that connection would have to partner with such companies, or a foreign diplomatic body go and do the legwork for the spanish companies, which wouldn't be the first time.

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Re:Germany boosts renewables with “biggest energy policy ref... by pjmlp on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:58AM (#30941477)

Germany has lots of good locations for wind, the problem is that anyone can block them, because "they don't like how they look, are noisy, too close to their home,..." and plety of other reasons.

Thus Germany could be like we have it back home in the Iberian Penisula, but no, many people are keeping the courts busy instead.

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