Martin's pipe dreams
AthenaToday, Thursday, Germany will get 99% of its power from solar and wind.
FrankWe already had several days in April at 100%.
nicht_bei_social_media@Climatehistories Great News. But I miss in the article the info that today is a public holiday here, which drives the demand down. So not only the weather is a factor to reach the 99%.
Edit: There is mention of it
> A slump in demand due to the public holiday is coinciding with a surge in solar generation and the region’s first mini-heat wave.
I probably over read it. Sorry.
Still, this is great news.
Miha Markič@Climatehistories @nicht_bei_social_media Not that great. What do you do when days are short and cloudy? Burn fossil fuels and emit plenty of CO2 and other pollutants?
Miquel 🖌️⚔️👾@nicht_bei_social_media it's in the article:
> A slump in demand due to the public holiday is coinciding with a surge in solar generation and the region’s first mini-heat wave.
@miquel Thanks, updated my post.
cwicseolfor@Climatehistories #alt4you Headline as written in toot over photograph of a row of solar panels on a grassy hill with two blurry modern windmills in background.
EINGFOAN 
Not there yet but getting closer #entso #energy #germany #statistics
Lorenz@eingfoan @Climatehistories What's the plan to get closer in the evening/at night and in winter?
Oliver SchafeldLarge scale battery storage facilities apparently are booming in Germany.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/energie/boom-batteriespeicher-deutschland-energiewende-100.html
https://www.mdr.de/wissen/umwelt-klima/batteriespeicher-revolution-voraus-energiewende-100.html
For future large scale storage salt caverns seem to present great opportunities. There are lots of them in Northern Germany where also most of the wind energy is produced.
Dmian 🇪🇺@lorenz @eingfoan @Climatehistories Batteries and green hydrogen are two solutions many European countries are exploring.
Basically Wind combined with pv is almost perfect since they are complimentary in profile. Nevertheless both are volatile and need either batteries or hydro pump to store over night and in times where there is limits.
Water by the river is almost like atomic plants and runs very consistently.
So all 5 combined intelligently can solve the problem but are hard to achieve in large scales.
@eingfoan @lorenz @Climatehistories *impossible to achieve in near future, the scale of energy storage is insanely large if you want to be fully on renewables
@mihamarkic @lorenz @Climatehistories
Yes and no
Germany nowadays has around 114 Gwh capacity in battery nowadays. Also pump hydro is expanding largely and currently is at 40gwh
So we can survive about 3 hours without any renewable theoretically
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞@eingfoan @mihamarkic @lorenz @Climatehistories
Interconnecting grids with HV DC transmitting lines can reduce the requirement for more localized storage. Such cable can run 1000s of km and could for example provide offshore wind energy from Newfoundland to Los Angeles.
That said the battery storage technology is improving faster than PV and we will see much more of it in the years to come.
@eingfoan @lorenz @Climatehistories 3hrs is nowhere enough, pump hydro can't grow more than that, batteries degrade, now is warm, people don't run heat pumps, days are sunny and long. You still burn quite a lot of fossil fuels and contribute a lot of co2. Or import from France, which is a bit hypocritical. 🤷♂️
@eingfoan @Climatehistories And during the winter when energy consumption goes up with heat pumps whilst solar hardly produces you'll need something more no?
@lorenz @Climatehistories at least water yes
Hugo@Climatehistories Germany deserves my tourism dollars/rmb/kip.
Ricardo Martín
Florian 
@Climatehistories Well, on a national holiday and therefore a lot of industry not consuming power.
Nonetheless a great leap in the right direction!
Nonetheless a great leap in the right direction!
seeteegee@Climatehistories it does seem to be a good 72hrs there when normally the electricity is quite brown and dirty. https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE/72h/hourly/2025-05-01T10:00:00.000Z
Andrew J Spaulding@Climatehistories I applaud ,Germany 👏 .
MAMA T
Tom Albrecht@Climatehistories this is such a Puff piece :(
Riedler 🏳️⚧️🇦🇹🇪🇺🏴☠️@Climatehistories took em long enough
@Climatehistories wait no that’s just on that one day, nvm
EevaXTiina@Climatehistories Bravo and hope you advertise this more. Yesterday I saw US Secretary Burgum babbling away about how Europe and esp. Germany has problems with energy and how he does not wish US to take same "path". (Obviously because current administration is so pro oil, but not true anyway)
rary279@Climatehistories but, surely, the grid doesn’t know 🫣
Kethianna@Climatehistories it's Labour Day for a large part of the world. For some it's a national holiday, while for others it's dependent on what's been agreed upon by different parties.
It's great, but not really a surprise that the demand for electricity is low today in Germany, and that the energy generated from wind and solar energy can cover the demand.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦@Climatehistories So why is nuclear power being promoted? To get enough energy for A.I. - something else nobody asked for?
Wolf-Agathon Schalý@Climatehistories I don't think that our Solar Panels / Wind turbines will provide that much power.
Where have you get this number(s) from?
Where have you get this number(s) from?
@wa_schaly If you want to check the electricity production and carbon emissions in your country (Europe mainly) check the link 👇
The one in use is for Germany
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE/72h/hourly/2025-05-01T10:00:00.000Z
@Climatehistories Erst einmal sehr toll gemachte Webseite.
Wer betreibt die - es existiert keine Kontaktpage? Wie werden die Zahlen beschafft - Da NordKorea sich komplett abschottet wie werden diese Zahlen beschafft. Oder wie glaubwürdig/aktuell sind die Zahlen aus China/USA/Russland?
Da aktuell in Australien Nacht ist, wie kann da noch so viel Solarenergie produziert werden?
Wer betreibt die - es existiert keine Kontaktpage? Wie werden die Zahlen beschafft - Da NordKorea sich komplett abschottet wie werden diese Zahlen beschafft. Oder wie glaubwürdig/aktuell sind die Zahlen aus China/USA/Russland?
Da aktuell in Australien Nacht ist, wie kann da noch so viel Solarenergie produziert werden?
Markus G@wa_schaly @Climatehistories Gefunden unter FAQs auf der ursprünglich verlinkten Webseite. Bzgl. Quellen:
https://ww2.electricitymaps.com/methodology#data-sources
Ich habe weiter durchgeklickt und zu Solar/Australien wird hierauf verwiesen:
Robin Barton@Climatehistories In Canada we are told by our elites that is impossible
Kevin RussellWhen Germany shut its dangerous nuclear plants they all shouted it would mean more coal.
We need to stand and applaud Germany's accomplishment, Germany's responsiveness to the demands of its people.
This is real. This is progress, this is what's needed. It can be done. It can be done under HARD circumstances.
Humans are on the brink of civilisation.
That's why billionaires are trying to steal it. We built the world with our parents.
Don't let them.
Bennolius 😷⚡@kevinrns @Climatehistories to be clear, though, Germany is still burning coal and has burnt a lot more coal than it would have if it had shut down its coal plants first and then slowly phased out nuclear as renewables ramped up.
@carbsrule_en @Climatehistories
Build the new energy, don't be DISTRACTED. Build wind, build solar, built smart grids, build batteries.
Putin wants you to build nuke plants, next to wide roads for his tanks.
A dollar spent on wind prevents 30 dollars spent on nukes.
Just to be clear, I was praising democracy as much as technological brilliance and Getting Shit Done.
Germans said "turn rhe nukes off" and no matter your bias promoting the Failed God, democracy matters, they turned them off.
They made the right choice, for a dozen reasons, AND the government did what Germans wanted.
Stand and applaud. One action, a thousand laurels.
Germany powered by 99% New Energy first time today.
Leela Torres@kevinrns @carbsrule_en
Some German politicians wanted to build new nuclear plants. One of them who was minister when shutting them down. But no energy company wants to build them (without outrageously large subsidies, which the EU would probably also find inadmissible)
Some German politicians wanted to build new nuclear plants. One of them who was minister when shutting them down. But no energy company wants to build them (without outrageously large subsidies, which the EU would probably also find inadmissible)
Democracy. It works, its the only option. Self government, shall not perish.
I don't understand.
Most Germans wanted nukes closed, they were closed. A minority opposed it.
Europe didn't close them.
Nukes are dangerous and expensive, so they are dumb.
@kevinrns @carbsrule_en
I totally agree with you.
But there a rightwing populists who think they can tickle fears of blackouts. Some call to "tear down the ugly windplants". It's so stupid.
I only wanted to add there are these dinosaur voices too and now there building the new government. 😖
wonofone 🍉@Climatehistories this is why their economy is stagnating /s
Crocodylus@Climatehistories We Cubans long for that news in our country 👏👏👏
Steve BBe careful, and get prepared.
End of last week Spain did much the same, then we had the #spainblackout!
Casual Observer - Restart Mode @Climatehistories I'm jealous of Germany's ability to fully embrace sustainable energy sources without interference from political lobbyists (and a head-up-the-ass political administration) insisting on continual investment in such 'winner' energy sources such as oil, natural gas, and coal.
David "Holly" Willhoite@Climatehistories No thorium 😞