If we make CCS mandatory at COP21, heating can also be made climate neutral, without waiting on more power from…
On Can the energy transition make Germany independent of Russian gas?
"a meager 8 % of the annual management costs." no doubt some anti-RE blog will misrepresent this as 8% of…
On Renewable power curtailment skyrockets in Germany
It is interesting to watch the grid management working, the Energiewende seems to be no problem. As Torsten Zoerner points…
On Renewable power curtailment skyrockets in Germany
German coal power utilities are investing an batteries: http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/germany--lg-chem-to-supply-batteries-for-steags-90-mw-energy-storage-project_100022108/#axzz3sP73lkHs
On If Germany had four times more solar…
About half of the new installed PV-systems in Germany are equipped with battery storage: http://energyload.eu/stromspeicher/solarstromspeicher/solarbatterien-pv-anlagen/
On If Germany had four times more solar…
The European grid is working, Germany's grid and power consumption can't be seen from an islander's perspective. Fraunhofer has noted…
On What will the Energiewende cost?
For me the increase in needed capacity from 85% to 90% RE share only indicates that we have to think…
On What will the Energiewende cost?
Actually, after we get to about 40 % of renewables, then things happen by themselves as coal, nuclear and natural…
On What will the Energiewende cost?
You are certainly right about the present focus, and it is already a marvelous result that current technology (plus a…
On What will the Energiewende cost?
This is another of those crazy studies based on something nobody would actually do. Nobody would put up enough solar…
On What will the Energiewende cost?