At the end of November, Germany’s Thüga Group exported the first hydrogen made from electricity into the country’s gas network at a point in Frankfurt. Craig Morris says the event could be the beginning of something big. One of the most popular questions critics of the German energy transition ask is what you do when there is no wind or solar power. It’s not a bad question – on the contrary, it’s the most important one for the power sector. Take a look at the chart below from Agora Energiewende’s website showing the power production from November 13 to November 15. From bottom to top, we have power from biomass (green), hydropower (light blue), wind power (dark blue), solar (yellow), and then the big gray area representing conventional power. The red line across the top represents consumption, so all of the generation above that red line is power for export. In the winter, Germany has little sun right when power demand peaks for the year – in this case, just below 80 GW. Solar barely … Continue reading P2G gets going