KfW is a bank. Banks have the extraordinary privilege that they are the ones to create new money, by giving…
On German Audit Office says Energiewende too expensive
Craig, you remind me of the guy with the shovel following the elephant parade. Thank you.
On German government willing participant in Energiewende
Vivi, to be fair, the CDU is in a coalition with the SPD now, and there were more CDU members…
On German government willing participant in Energiewende
"so the government is a willing participant in the German public’s efforts" Very true, though considering the rather self-sabotaging changes…
On German government willing participant in Energiewende
In this article, SAIDI is measured for impact. Others have measured cost of frequency control. Are these the right measures?…
On German grid more stable in 2013
SAIDI is the wrong way to measure the impact of renewables to the grids. As said in the article, the…
On German grid more stable in 2013
This result is not very surprising, since wind and solar energy is provided by a multiplicity of distributed sources that…
On German grid more stable in 2013
Craig- as my last post noted, theMunich region ideed has interlocking high speed rail, regional commuter rail, subways, light rail,…
On German government’s three-year Energiewende plan
Craig. I often took an overnight pullman from Munich to Paris- and or Amsterdam which splits at Stuttgart. Leaves at…
On German government’s three-year Energiewende plan
The premise is wrong. Nuclear power stations can and do provide district heating. They used to do so in the…
On Looking back at the Energiewende 1980 – Nuclear Cannot be Efficient