It needs to be understood that the true source of the problem comes more from adding a lot of production…
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[...] I wrote about Strukturwandel (structural change), the German campaign to transition away from conventional heavy-industry [...]
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It is interesting that Germany has apparently not developed the Danish model of ownership for wind turbines (it could be…
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It's interesting the reference (point 3.) to how "power demand can be shifted to accommodate intermittent green power production". It's…
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The units for storage capacity have to be energy. So, Vattenfall's facility can't have a capacity of 120 MW (this…
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German political parties are not blocking development of Renewable Tech Ventures energy. Secondly, the grid needs to be improved and…
On Germans Driven by Facts, Not Fear – Deal With It
[...] didn’t simply fall from the sky in 2011. “Discussions about Energiewende had started already in the 1980s“, says Fischedick.…
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None-the-less, Germany continues to burn more coal in existing plants to replace shut down nuclear plants. Preliminary data shows that…
On Germany builds minus six coal plants after nuclear phaseout
The above analysis does not even consider French fuel reprocessing (just 400 tons in a recent year, but it can…
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