As Craig Morris explained last week, our website underwent its first major revision at the beginning of the year. Today, he presents and briefly explains some of the new charts. One of my colleagues is Thomas Gerke, a graphics expert. Sometimes, you don’t really understand an issue – or see what the main messages – until you have visualized it. When we brainstorm about topics, I mainly toss out text, while he tosses out chart mockups. We started working more closely together when he produced a chart idea comparing the “strike price” for a proposed new nuclear plant in the UK to current and future feed-in tariffs for wind and solar power in Germany. The chart shows that the nuclear is already more expensive than solar and wind, which are also getting less expensive as the price of nuclear rises. The chart was very popular, so it was redone for this project as well. Another major issue is the fate of dispatchable capacity in Germany. The next chart was redone based on one by Berlin’s … Continue reading Overview of new charts