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Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Power Needs From Renewable Energy

By Kiley Kroh
May 13, 2014

On Sunday, Germany’s impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continued, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion — nearly 75 percent — of the country’s overall electricity demand by midday. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the country’s power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon, according to Renewables International.

In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country’s electricity demand, thanks to additional installations and favorable weather. “Renewable generators produced 40.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up from 35.7 billion kilowatt-hours in the same period last year,” Bloomberg reported. Much of the country’s renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and, as a point of comparison, Germany’s 27 percent is double the approximately 13 percent of U.S. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.

Observers say the records will keep coming as Germany continues its Energiewende, or energy transformation, which aims to power the country almost entirely on renewable sources by 2050.

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Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Power Needs From Renewable Energy

By Kiley Kroh
May 13, 2014

On Sunday, Germany’s impressive streak of renewable energy milestones continued, with renewable energy generation surging to a record portion — nearly 75 percent — of the country’s overall electricity demand by midday. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the country’s power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon, according to Renewables International.

In the first quarter of 2014, renewable energy sources met a record 27 percent of the country’s electricity demand, thanks to additional installations and favorable weather. “Renewable generators produced 40.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, up from 35.7 billion kilowatt-hours in the same period last year,” Bloomberg reported. Much of the country’s renewable energy growth has occurred in the past decade and, as a point of comparison, Germany’s 27 percent is double the approximately 13 percent of U.S. electricity supply powered by renewables as of November 2013.

Observers say the records will keep coming as Germany continues its Energiewende, or energy transformation, which aims to power the country almost entirely on renewable sources by 2050.

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for 1/2 of one day

on a nice day

--LOL

what is it when it is below zero

or 95 degrees on a windless day
 
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And they pay 3X what we do for power - I read that in my elec coop magazine we get monthly. They're seriously moving away from green energy because it's unaffordable.

SO, when you tout this as some sort of proof that it's great, you're misrepresenting the reality that they tried it and it's been a disaster.
 
....and not to mention that despite this they still havent met their Kyoto goals while we have.
 
The outright misrepresentation and lying by stinkprogress should be enough to embarass even a MODERATELY informed reader.. Fortunately for them, MOST of their readers have NO practical intuition or inquistiveness to defend themselves from the shitstorm of propaganda..

If you follow back this claim --- it flows from a few hour record of production during ONE DAY in which the following chart was produced..

http://cf01.erneuerbareenergien.schluetersche.de/files/smfiledata/3/7/0/9/3/7/bc2RecordG11514.pptx

flacaltenn-albums-charts-picture6617-windgermanyoneday.jpg


Literally a few hours before, renewables were carrying LESS than 20% of the load, and a DAY BEFORE they were carrying NEXT TO NOTHING..


You cannot switch on a coal plant like a lightbulb. They take a day or two to fire up.. So during these RARE peak events, those BACKBONE sources of generation don't even get shut down. So NOTHING was greener because wind hit a spike for a couple hours.

At some point, all these stinkprogress know-nothings ought to be left UNPROTECTED and left to face surgery on a day when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow in "ProgressVille".... I've got to ask Star how stupid it is to continue reading and feeding this nonsense.. Don't you ever really want to know how the world works? Or do you prefer these fairytales???
 
The outright misrepresentation and lying by stinkprogress should be enough to embarass even a MODERATELY informed reader.. Fortunately for them, MOST of their readers have NO practical intuition or inquistiveness to defend themselves from the shitstorm of propaganda..

If you follow back this claim --- it flows from a few hour record of production during ONE DAY in which the following chart was produced..

http://cf01.erneuerbareenergien.schluetersche.de/files/smfiledata/3/7/0/9/3/7/bc2RecordG11514.pptx

flacaltenn-albums-charts-picture6617-windgermanyoneday.jpg


Literally a few hours before, renewables were carrying LESS than 20% of the load, and a DAY BEFORE they were carrying NEXT TO NOTHING..


You cannot switch on a coal plant like a lightbulb. They take a day or two to fire up.. So during these RARE peak events, those BACKBONE sources of generation don't even get shut down. So NOTHING was greener because wind hit a spike for a couple hours.

At some point, all these stinkprogress know-nothings ought to be left UNPROTECTED and left to face surgery on a day when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow in "ProgressVille".... I've got to ask Star how stupid it is to continue reading and feeding this nonsense.. Don't you ever really want to know how the world works? Or do you prefer these fairytales???


Yep, Germany had one exceptionally good renewable energy day but-----but Germany also had an exceptionally good renewable energy first quarter and-----and according to a May 9th Bloomberg article Germany still "seeks to increase the share of renewables to at least 80 percent by 2050".

Trinnity: "They're seriously moving away from green energy because it's unaffordable." giggle!


Renewables Meet Record 27 Percent of German Electricity Demand - Bloomberg

Stefan Nicola
May 9, 2014


Clean-energy sources such as solar and wind met a record 27 percent of demand in Germany in the first quarter because of additional installations and favorable weather, according to the BDEW utility lobby.

Germany, Europe’s biggest clean-energy market, seeks to increase the share of renewables to at least 80 percent by 2050 to replace atomic reactors shuttered by 2022.
 
They are building more coal plants than ever in Germany. And the only way they get to 27% is to count hydro and burning garbage. The investments are killing their poor, and not performing. You are dressing up a pig with the trash you are seeking out to confirm your biases.
 
The outright misrepresentation and lying by stinkprogress should be enough to embarass even a MODERATELY informed reader.. Fortunately for them, MOST of their readers have NO practical intuition or inquistiveness to defend themselves from the shitstorm of propaganda..

If you follow back this claim --- it flows from a few hour record of production during ONE DAY in which the following chart was produced..

http://cf01.erneuerbareenergien.schluetersche.de/files/smfiledata/3/7/0/9/3/7/bc2RecordG11514.pptx

flacaltenn-albums-charts-picture6617-windgermanyoneday.jpg


Literally a few hours before, renewables were carrying LESS than 20% of the load, and a DAY BEFORE they were carrying NEXT TO NOTHING..


You cannot switch on a coal plant like a lightbulb. They take a day or two to fire up.. So during these RARE peak events, those BACKBONE sources of generation don't even get shut down. So NOTHING was greener because wind hit a spike for a couple hours.

At some point, all these stinkprogress know-nothings ought to be left UNPROTECTED and left to face surgery on a day when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow in "ProgressVille".... I've got to ask Star how stupid it is to continue reading and feeding this nonsense.. Don't you ever really want to know how the world works? Or do you prefer these fairytales???


Yep, Germany had one exceptionally good renewable energy day but-----but Germany also had an exceptionally good renewable energy first quarter and-----and according to a May 9th Bloomberg article Germany still "seeks to increase the share of renewables to at least 80 percent by 2050".

Trinnity: "They're seriously moving away from green energy because it's unaffordable." giggle!


Renewables Meet Record 27 Percent of German Electricity Demand - Bloomberg

Stefan Nicola
May 9, 2014


Clean-energy sources such as solar and wind met a record 27 percent of demand in Germany in the first quarter because of additional installations and favorable weather, according to the BDEW utility lobby.

Germany, Europe’s biggest clean-energy market, seeks to increase the share of renewables to at least 80 percent by 2050 to replace atomic reactors shuttered by 2022.

and favorable weather

--LOL
 
I just don't understand how you can be for limiting carbon emissions and anti-Nuclear. Kind of conflicts.

If they are stupid enough to believe that can replace all their nuclear with wind and solar, they are gonna literally kill thousands od people in the near future.. German technologists are not stupid, but theres a history of ending up with crazy and dangerous leadership...
 
I just don't understand how you can be for limiting carbon emissions and anti-Nuclear. Kind of conflicts.

If they are stupid enough to believe that can replace all their nuclear with wind and solar, they are gonna literally kill thousands od people in the near future.. German technologists are not stupid, but theres a history of ending up with crazy and dangerous leadership...

:lol: ^^ So butthurt that somebody's using renewables that he invokes Hitler... :rofl:
 
I just don't understand how you can be for limiting carbon emissions and anti-Nuclear. Kind of conflicts.

If they are stupid enough to believe that can replace all their nuclear with wind and solar, they are gonna literally kill thousands od people in the near future.. German technologists are not stupid, but theres a history of ending up with crazy and dangerous leadership...

:lol: ^^ So butthurt that somebody's using renewables that he invokes Hitler... :rofl:

Honestly, I was thinking of Merkel's Socialist E. German political roots and her flirtations with the very active Green Party in Germany today. And whilst you think this a joke, people ARE GONNA DIE with this kind of ill-conceived energy policy..


RealClearEnergy | German Energy Policy Is Failing the Poor


The German government recently said that 6.9 million households live in energy poverty, defined as spending more than 10 per cent of their income on energy. This is partly a result of Germany's Energiewende, the country’s turn away from nuclear and towards renewable energies. This year alone, German consumers are expected to subsidize green energy to the tune of a whopping €23.6 billion ($33 billion) on top of their normal electricity bills for the so-called “renewable energies reallocation charge.”

German consumers have already paid €109 billion for renewable energies since 2000, with greater costs looming on the horizon. Between 2000 and 2013, real German electricity prices for households have increased 80%. About one quarter of household electricity costs now stem directly from renewable energy.

Green energy can’t meet Germany’s need for reliable electricity – what do you do when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow? That is why Germany still needs to base itself on fossil fuels, and it is one of the reasons that the consumption of polluting brown coal rose last year to its highest level since 1990. Thus, German CO2-emissions have risen since the nuclear phase-out of 2011, despite the incredible subsidies for renewables
 
If they are stupid enough to believe that can replace all their nuclear with wind and solar, they are gonna literally kill thousands od people in the near future.. German technologists are not stupid, but theres a history of ending up with crazy and dangerous leadership...

:lol: ^^ So butthurt that somebody's using renewables that he invokes Hitler... :rofl:

Honestly, I was thinking of Merkel's Socialist E. German political roots and her flirtations with the very active Green Party in Germany today. And whilst you think this a joke, people ARE GONNA DIE with this kind of ill-conceived energy policy..


RealClearEnergy | German Energy Policy Is Failing the Poor


The German government recently said that 6.9 million households live in energy poverty, defined as spending more than 10 per cent of their income on energy. This is partly a result of Germany's Energiewende, the country’s turn away from nuclear and towards renewable energies. This year alone, German consumers are expected to subsidize green energy to the tune of a whopping €23.6 billion ($33 billion) on top of their normal electricity bills for the so-called “renewable energies reallocation charge.”

German consumers have already paid €109 billion for renewable energies since 2000, with greater costs looming on the horizon. Between 2000 and 2013, real German electricity prices for households have increased 80%. About one quarter of household electricity costs now stem directly from renewable energy.

Green energy can’t meet Germany’s need for reliable electricity – what do you do when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow? That is why Germany still needs to base itself on fossil fuels, and it is one of the reasons that the consumption of polluting brown coal rose last year to its highest level since 1990. Thus, German CO2-emissions have risen since the nuclear phase-out of 2011, despite the incredible subsidies for renewables

Yyyyah. Sell that in Chernobyl.
 
:lol: ^^ So butthurt that somebody's using renewables that he invokes Hitler... :rofl:

Honestly, I was thinking of Merkel's Socialist E. German political roots and her flirtations with the very active Green Party in Germany today. And whilst you think this a joke, people ARE GONNA DIE with this kind of ill-conceived energy policy..


RealClearEnergy | German Energy Policy Is Failing the Poor


The German government recently said that 6.9 million households live in energy poverty, defined as spending more than 10 per cent of their income on energy. This is partly a result of Germany's Energiewende, the country’s turn away from nuclear and towards renewable energies. This year alone, German consumers are expected to subsidize green energy to the tune of a whopping €23.6 billion ($33 billion) on top of their normal electricity bills for the so-called “renewable energies reallocation charge.”

German consumers have already paid €109 billion for renewable energies since 2000, with greater costs looming on the horizon. Between 2000 and 2013, real German electricity prices for households have increased 80%. About one quarter of household electricity costs now stem directly from renewable energy.

Green energy can’t meet Germany’s need for reliable electricity – what do you do when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow? That is why Germany still needs to base itself on fossil fuels, and it is one of the reasons that the consumption of polluting brown coal rose last year to its highest level since 1990. Thus, German CO2-emissions have risen since the nuclear phase-out of 2011, despite the incredible subsidies for renewables

Yyyyah. Sell that in Chernobyl.

Probably sell like hot uranium cakes in Chernobyl.. Since that was also a failure of Socialist Central planning and management and NOT an indication of the failure of a technology.

Seems to be a pattern here -- Hmmmmmmm......................
:eusa_whistle:
 

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