Newsletter XX 2021

Wow. That was a new record again. Solar systems delivered more than 40 gigawatts at times on Tuesday, according to data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Accordingly, between 12:15 p.m. and 13:45 p.m. not quite 41 GW was fed into the grid. The wind turbines supplied an additional eight GW. The nationwide requirement at that time was around 64 GW.

So the sun and wind covered around 75 percent of it for a few hours around midday. That's also a record-breaking level for a weekday and with the sun still low in the sky...

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Background knowledge

reaktorpleite.de

Map of the nuclear world:

Now finally stop, the price for an inconsistent energy policy is too high ...

The German version of this world map:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD

The search in the reaktorpleite.de with the search term


	solar power

brought the following results, among others:

November 20, 2020 - Climate liars

Mathias Bröckers / telepolis.de

After the yes to the Energy Act

May 29, 2017 - Rudolf Rechsteiner: "The nuclear lobby has a perfidious plan"

Gabriel Brönnimann / tageswoche.ch

Wikipedia

solar power

Solar power is the colloquial term for electrical energy converted from solar energy. This form of energy is one of the renewable energies, as it is available daily on earth during the day and the sun, viewed by human standards, is a practically inexhaustible source of energy.

In 2008, solar cells with an output of 1.460 MW were manufactured in Germany. This put Germany in second place behind China, where solar cells with an output of 2.589 MW were produced. Germany and Japan lost world market shares in cell production in 2008; on the other hand, China, Taiwan and other Asian countries in particular were able to gain significant world market shares. In 2008, around every third solar cell sold worldwide came from China; Germany produced around 19 percent of world production.

Between 2010 and 2014, the installed capacity of photovoltaics in Germany more than doubled from 18 to 38 GW. In 2014, however, the expansion slumped significantly to 1,9 GW, which is below the expansion corridor of 2,5 GW specified by the federal government. Nevertheless, solar energy in Germany currently accounts for more than half of the consumption peaks at lunchtime on sunny summer days, and even two thirds in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

If the expansion continues to reach high single-digit and possibly even double-digit gigawatt figures annually in the next few years, solar power could already be able to cover a large part of German electricity consumption on very sunny days. On a summer day, the peak load in Germany is around 70 gigawatts.

AtomkraftwerkePlag

Inconsistent energy policy

By and large, the energy transition has been successful since 2011, not because of, but in spite of Angela Merkel's energy policy. Started half-heartedly by politics, badly planned, repeatedly delayed and slowed down, it has developed into a largely independent process.

When the black-and-yellow government reversed its extension after Fukushima, it limited itself to shutting down old reactors and initiating an 11-year-long schedule for the nuclear phase-out, which, while keeping the unreasonable demands of the German nuclear companies low, at the same time unites the German population exposed to the dangers of atomic energy for another decade. The nuclear phase-out was not included in the Basic Law, the atomic factories in Gronau and Lingen, nuclear research and research reactors were excluded from the nuclear phase-out, the Euratom Treaty has not yet been terminated.

Framework conditions for the energy transition were hardly set. Nevertheless, the use of renewable energies has progressed faster than expected, simply because the time was right ...

Further to: Newspaper article 2021

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