kravietz 🦇Mar 14

Wow, who would have expected a Dunkelflaute in March? But here it is:

  • #Germany - the “energy transformation leader with the most renewables in Europe” - 604 gCO2eq/kWh
  • #Poland - old coal baseline country that is heavily investing in wind and building its first nuclear power plant - 582 gCO2eq/kWh
  • #France - the hopeless case of old, legacy #nuclear that has “no future” and “contributes nothing to decarbonisation” (literal quotes) - 38 gCO2eq/kWh

It’s not a typo, the last number is really “38”, that is 16x less than the first number. And the whole point of #decarbonisation is to emit less CO2.

Show threadBjoern MichaelsenMar 15
@kravietz So your theory is that people think solar panels would generate power at 9PM in March -- well after dusk -- and are now surprised this isnt the case?
Show threadkravietz 🦇Mar 15

@Sweetshark

It was the same at 16:00 that say

https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/e7155fad-34e6-494e-9e5e-cf54033e891b

kravietz 🦇 (@[email protected])

Electricity generation today 16:15 GMT#Germany 535 gCO2eq/kWh#Poland 553 gCO2eq/kWh#France 28 gCO2eq/kWhSuch a puzzling situation, what could be the difference between these three European countrie...

Show threadBjoern MichaelsenMar 15
@kravietz https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&week=11 <- better source, showing the problem: too much lignite -- as hard coal was decommissioned first to protect jobs in the east of Germany.
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Show threadkravietz 🦇Mar 15

@Sweetshark

Makes perfect sense. And nuclear power was decommissioned to protect… what, climate? 🤔

Show threadBjoern MichaelsenMar 15

@kravietz Nuclear was decommissioned because even the plant owners didnt want to do the repairs to keep them running as they were lacking maintenance for decades due to the phase out commited to after Fukushima in 2011 under Merkel.

Which wouldnt be a problem, if two things would not have happened:
* the Altmaier-Knick severely hampering #renewables in 2012
* #Suedlink / #Suedostlink being sabotaged by conservative politicians in Bavaria delaying needed network capacity

Show threadBjoern Michaelsen

@kravietz The current minister -- #Reiche -- of course does things that curiously only make sense to her former employer EON (gas company).

As taz writes:
"Not even RWE, the other major fossil fuel company in Germany, had anything positive to say."

https://taz.de/Energiepolitik-von-Katherina-Reiche/!6157093/

Energiepolitik von Katherina Reiche: Sie ruiniert Klima und Wirtschaft

Der Kanzler sollte sich von seiner Wirtschaftsministerin trennen. Ihre Umfragewerte sind im Keller, selbst Energie-Unternehmen kritisieren sie.

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