The same is happening in The Netherlands as well: <a href="https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektriciteit/totale-elektriciteitsproductie" rel="nofollow">https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektricitei...</a><p>For April: <a href="https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektriciteit/totale-elektriciteitsproductie" rel="nofollow">https://ned.nl/nl/dataportaal/energie-productie/elektricitei...</a>
Solar was 27% of total energy production, and wind was 37%, which when you consider nights, means that you _must_ have peaks well over 50%.<p>Today, at midday, solar is 69% of total production.
- <i>"During the week to May 13, Germany's solar farms produced 17,531 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, according to data from LSEG,"</i><p>This is an obviously wrong number, and I'm not even sure how they accomplished such a specifically weird mistake. "Mean of 17,351 MW" would be plausible. That's different by a factor of 168.
The numbers are too low. We have seen a surge in solar panels on balconies (~10% in this higher income neighborhood), which isn't taken into account. Also several people in my family have their roof full for their own consumtion + EV, this also not taken into account.<p>We recently went on the Autobahn for a 1000km journey, and you can see some solar farms, but very few. There is still a huge potential.<p>Solar will also kick into second gear as soon as batteries get cheaper or EV batteries are recycled into house batteries.
When I see these charts I definitely don’t want to be that sweating guy in grid operator’s control room desperately trying to turn off some solar parks to stabilize the grid. Solar generation goes from nothing at night to 80+% during daytime. Ouch.
Why is it so hard to get a clear story on nuclear power on Havker News? The threads below devolve to: “you’re lying!”, “no, you’re lying!!” Yall pretend to be geniuses and turn into raving flame wars at the slightest mention of nuclear.
Why are there so many nuclear fans on here? I am no expert and yes it sounds like nuclear energy is "clean and easy", but we still don't know what to do with the waste and if it'd be cheaper is apparently a heavy debate. So what's bad about removing the risk of nuclear powerplants and producing less nuclear waste?
Right now when it is sunny PV panels produce at their peak. May is optimal time for solar energy for the northern hemisphere. Summer reduces efficiency due to heat.
The trade-offs here don't seem favourable. Gemany's per-capita energy production has been dropping [0] and I'm going to be waiting to see what their industrial manufacturing does but I doubt we're going to see China-style explosive growth out of them any time soon.<p>We've got a very persistent trend across all these ideology-before-prosperity western countries where their energy policy is proving to be a disaster. We're getting literal de-growth of energy and a lot of the political fireworks are probably related to that. Hopefully we see some long-term improvements, but the last decade has not been pretty.<p>[0] <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany">https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/germany</a>