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_aavaa_yesterday at 7:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

The data does not back up this narrative: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

The share of electricity production that coal lost is primarily take up by wind and solar, not gas.


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pzotoday at 10:15 AM

electricity is only one power source - you not gonna use it for e.g. heating because its expensive. When you look at graph with energy consumption by source german situation is bad and solar provides less than 6% and wind less than 11% [1]. Now go compare with france where nuclear provides 37% of energy.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

cyberaxyesterday at 8:06 PM

The devil is in the details. The easy part is now done, and further significant increases in solar/wind in Germany are not going to happen.

Renewables now dominate generation during the optimal periods, but there's nothing on the horizon for other times.

Your graph also ignores energy used for heating and for industrial processes. Their electrification is now stalled by high energy prices.

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