Okay, everyone sober again? Then let's start the new year with #GermanEnergyFact #1: Primary #energy consumption.
According to new #AGEB data, German primary energy consumption was 11,829 PJ in 2022. If you are more comfortable with watt-hours: this corresponds to 3286 TWh - or nearly 40,000 kWh per capita.
▶️ More than a third of this is #oil - on average a German consumed nearly 14,000 kWh of oil.
▶️ Around a quarter is natural #gas, more than 9000 kWh per capita.
#GermanEnergyFact #1 ctd.
If you think that the renewable share is still fairly small, and the #Energiewende needs to speed up, you are right! But also consider that a shift toward wind & solar and electrification of heating and mobility "automatically" decrease primary energy consumption, as it is much less wasteful compared to, e.g., electricity generation in thermal power plants and internal combustion engines. So expect overall PEC to decrease and the RES share to increase fairly quickly.
#GermanEnergyFact #1 ctd.
To put the German ~40,000 kWh per capita consumption into comparison: According to @ourworldindata (only 2021 data available so far), the 🇩🇪 per capita PEC is about twice the 🌎 average, around a third more than 🇨🇳's, and a bit above the 🇪🇺 average.
But it is only about two thirds of the 🇦🇺 per capita PEC, and a bit more than half of the 🇺🇸 .
Sources:
AGEB: https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/energieverbrauch-faellt-2022-auf-niedrigsten-stand-seit-der-wiedervereinigung/
Or World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-stacked?country=Africa~Asia~AUS~CHN~European+Union+%2827%29~DEU~OWID_WRL~USA~GBR~South+America~ZAF~SAU~QAT
Next #GermanEnergyFact will be shorter, promise!
Zuwächse bei Erneuerbaren und Kohle / CO₂-Emissionen sinken 2022 nur leicht Berlin (20.12.2022) – Der Energieverbrauch in Deutschland erreichte 2022 eine Höhe von 11.829 Petajoule (PJ) beziehungsweise 403,6 Millionen Tonnen Steinkohleneinheiten (Mio. t SKE). Das entspricht einem Rückgang um 4,7 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Der Energieverbrauch erreichte damit nach den Berechnungen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AG Energiebilanzen) […]
#GermanEnergyFact #2: Let's have a closer look at the development of the fossil part of primary energy consumption in 🇩🇪. We regularly track this in the #openenergytracker, where I also take the following graphs from. Zoom- & clickable graphs and underlying data here: https://openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germany/energyconsumption/#fossil-energy-primary-consumption
▶️ Between 1990-2022, fossil #primaryenergyconsumption decreased by 28%.
▶️ 2020 saw the lowest consumption so far, driven by the pandemic.
▶️ In 2021, consumption increased again because of economic recovery.
I planned to post more facts about German energy consumption in this first week of the new year, but for a current occasion, here is a small digression: Today, the first ever (regular) #LNG tanker #MariaEnergy arrived in Germany.
Not so fun fact: it is natural #gas produced from #fracking.
Story: https://www.dw.com/en/first-lng-tanker-arrives-at-germanys-new-floating-terminal/a-64272015
While this first ever #LNG shipment received a lot of media attention, and it certainly is a significant event, let's put it in perspective:
#GermanEnergyFact #3 ctd.
Since September 2022, the residential and commercial sectors in 🇩🇪 already saved natural #gas equivalent to 21.5 (!) average #LNG tankers purely because of changes in behavior. This is what my colleagues @aroth and Felix Schmidt found in an analysis that we constantly update on the #DIW #Ampelmonitor #Energiewende: https://www.diw.de/en/diw_01.c.841560.en/ampel-monitor_energiewende__monitor_of_the_german__traffic_light__coalition___s_energy_transition_targets.html#ab_862329
More graphs and info on the methods used are available in the #openenergytracker: https://openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germany/naturalgas/
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#GermanEnergyFact #4: Electric vehicles 🔌 🚗
Again, I wanted to continue with energy consumption facts... but because of current events, I HAVE to talk about electric cars! Today new must-see #KBA data came out. All data and zoomable graphs also available in the #openenergytracker: https://openenergytracker.org/en/docs/germany/emobility/
▶️ December 2022: Highest-ever share of battery-electric vehicles (#BEV) in new #car registrations in 🇩🇪 , 33.2%!
▶️ Also, a record share for plug-in hybrids (#PHEV) in December with 22.2%.
#GermanEnergyFact #4 ctd.
▶️ That is, more than 55% of all new cars in December 2022 had a plug 🔌 . In the very motherland of the internal combustion engine 💪
▶️ This record month was probably driven by reduced purchase subsidies from January 2023 on: no more subsidies for plug-in hybrids, and max. subsidy for BEV now €4500 (was 6000€).
▶️ Also important: with this record month, the fleet of pure battery-electric cars in 🇩🇪 now surpassed 1 million 🎉
▶️ Still way to go to reach 15 mio by 2030...
@wpschill
4500€ Subvention (!!) für Neuwagenkauf
Der Fairness halber sollten dann alle Haushalte ohne Auto auch mindstens alle 15Jahre -> 4500 € geschenkt bekommen, oder?
@jakob_thoboell
es ist so irre. Es kaufen sich jetzt sowieso nur Leute ein BEV, die es sich heute, jetzt leisten können. Entweder, weil sie eh reich sind, dann brauchen sie keinen Zuschuss. Oder weil sie drauf gespart haben, dann brauchen sie auch keinen.
Und der Zuschuss wird ja nur kurz für den Hochlauf verordnet sein, nich 10 Jahre lang. Sobald die Armen genug gespart hätten, gäbs den Zuschuss nicht mehr.
Alte Denke, alte Tools, Weiterso.
Fck!
@draftndepth @wpschill @SheDrivesMobility
@jakob_thoboell
Ja. Ich bin schon so alt, aber ich hab diese Dynamik erst letztes Jahr kapiert.
Überhaupt war letztes Jahr erleuchtend, auch, was soziale Zusammenhänge im Öko-Klima-Clusterfuck angeht.
stößt Du mit mir auf 2022 an?
🎉 🍻
@jakob_thoboell
Letztens dazugelernt, dass die subventionierten BEV der reichen Deutschen dann auch nicht in DE bleiben, sondern als Gebrauchtwagen in Polen oder so landen.
Was den Preis für Gebrauchtwagen in DE dann treibt + die Armen wieder nix von der Subvention haben.
Und all die Rohstoffe, die DE sich gekrallt hatte, sind für Kreislaufwirtschaft hier verloren.
Wir leben in einer Wahnvorstellung von unendlichen Ressourcen...
Guck nur mal
@draftndepth @wpschill @SheDrivesMobility
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