Sol3dwellerJul 2, 2023

The EU reached a new record low in electricity from fossil fuels in the first half of 2023. (energy-charts.info)

https://lemmy.world/post/941882

The EU reached a new record low in electricity from fossil fuels in the first half of 2023. (energy-charts.info) - Lemmy.world

According to the data gathered on energy-charts.info [http://energy-charts.info], the first half of 2023 saw the lowest production of electricity by fossil fuels since 2015. With 387 TWh (31.7% of load) from conventional sources it surpassed the previous low for a first half year of 400.9 TWh (32.1%) in 2020 by nearly 14 TWh or 3.5%. At the same time renewables provided for more power than ever with 519.3 TWh providing 42.6% of the load. Other records for a first half year in 2023 (see the bottom of the energy-charts page): * lowest nuclear power production * lowest fossil peat production * lowest load * highest pumped hydro usage (consumption+production) * highest offshore wind production (23.922 TWh) * highest onshore wind production (195.399 TWh) * highest solar power production (98.698 TWh) This marks a notable shift towards green energy compared to the first half of 2022: renewables increased from 488.8 TWh in the first half of 2022 to 519.3 TWh in the first half this year, while fossil fuels decreased from 475.3 TWh to 387 TWh.

Show threadmholivJul 2, 2023
Nice. Let’s pump up nuclear and renewable. We need to drop CO2 asap.
Show threadsadrealityJul 2, 2023

Man... I bet whoever down voted this didn't like the nuclear take.

I wonder what is their solution for the back bone of grid...

Russian gas? Or bettary technology that doesnt exist currently? 🙄

Show threadschroedingershatJul 3, 2023

For the 3 hours or so of storage needed to exceed the grid penetration possible with nuclear due to its inflexibility there are individual storage production factories being constructed every few weeks that exceed the scale of the entire nuclear industry.

Then there is also thermal storage, existing hydro as dispatch, pumped hydro, w2e, and load shifting,

Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power worldwide - Nature Communications

Solar and wind resources are dependent on geophysical constraints. Here the authors find that solar and wind power resources can satisfy countries’ electricity demand of between 72–91% of hours, but hundreds of hours of unmet demand may occur annually.

Nature
Show threadsadrealityJul 3, 2023
Then why didn't Germany deploy it before shutting down nuclear but is still running fossil fuel plants?
Show threadschroedingershat

Because their rollout was sabotaged by right wing morons like you after already comitting to replacing said nuclear with renewables.

In spite of that they are partially responsible for the renewable industry covering all new electricity growth, so you should thank them.

Jul 3, 2023 at 10:06pmWeb