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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by ForestCritter on Friday July 11, 2025 @05:52PM (#44537129)
Don't forget that they have power shortages and strict rationing in that equation. So at the end of the day they have 75% solar but it is not adequate for the population.
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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by exiguus on Friday July 11, 2025 @06:23PM (#44537369)
Thats not true. It's 75% renewable. Means, biomass, wind, solar etc.. And in Winter it is 55% renewable. Shortages are compensate mostly with fast booting Gas, Coal and Hydrogen plants. Also trading[1] in Germany is relatively even (in/out).

[1] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.ht...

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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by adrianN on Friday July 11, 2025 @11:10PM (#44538976)
This is the first time I hear that there is strict (or any) electricity rationing in Germany and I've lived here all my life.
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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by NekkoDroid on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:42AM (#44540128)
They might be mixing up Germany and South Africa i think. IIRC they do have times where they have planned outages in the different areas as the grid can't handle it if all were able to use it at the same time.
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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by tim333 on Saturday July 12, 2025 @11:30AM (#44542751)
South Africa has outages but it's more down to corruption and mismanagement than grid issues.
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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by danielbln on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:45PM (#44545465)
We do not have shortages or power rationing. As another poster said, you may be confusing Germany with South Africa, though that's not a common confusion usually.
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Re:In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power La... by soco on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:08AM (#44559190)
When people lie they bother less with the truth, by definition.
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