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  1. Re:175 GW would be roughly 23% of India's energy u by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1 · on India Eyeing a New Monster 100GW Solar-Capacity Goal (arstechnica.com)

    This is pretty easy to disprove
    https://www.agora-energiewende...

    I took a couple of days of the last week as an example and you can see pretty clearly the difference between the power requirements during the day and during the night. As you may or may not know, Germany is a nation that has some real industrial output.

  2. Re:Nothing to do with renewables by Uecker · · Score: 1 · on Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season (inhabitat.com)

    I am talking about the worst case scenario with no light and wind. As for example, in January this year there were several days where this was the case. This is not unusual. But even then - in contrast to what many slashdotters seem to believe - Germany was still able to export (net exports) electricity at all times during January. At no time - even during high demand - was the amount of imports bigger than the exports. The idea that Germany would somehow depend on nuclear power from France is simply a myth (or a lie).

    Source for the data: https://www.agora-energiewende...

  3. Re:Fusion power plant comes out the same year and by Uecker · · Score: 1 · on Solar Could Lead In Power Production By 2050

    Pumped storage is certainly not underutilized in Germany.

    You can look up the actual use of pumped storage here:
    http://www.agora-energiewende....

    Power from pump storage never even comes close to 10GW. Does look pretty underutilized to me. But if you have better data, please share.

    Pumped-storage definitely is also not profitable at the moment because solar reduced peak power prices:
    http://www.icis.com/resources/...

    Pumped storage does not show up on 'renewable' charts as it is a zero sum game, you get the same energy out of it you pumped up first.

    Ofcourse, why are you telling me this?

    If you had a clue how power grids work you would not make such brain dead comments.

    Well, if you would be able to present actual numbers, you would not have to resort to insults.

    Germany has roughly 10GW pumped storage power and roughly 50GWh storage as work/energy.

    This sounds about right, but this is installed capacity, not what is actually used.

    Afaik in percentage of daily power production we are world leader.

  4. Re:Falling energy prices and weak demand? by brambus · · Score: 1 · on The Cost of Caring For Elderly Nuclear Plants Expected To Rise

    we have summer right now

    Article is from April 8, 2014 and says "fifth consecutive monthly decline in March", so the decline has in fact started over the winter. My guess is you didn't really read it, did you?

    day ahead demand for GAS IS DAMN LOW! (No one is heating, e.g.)

    As you completely misunderstood that the article isn't about summer, this remark is entirely off base.

    As we have to much power all the time

    The article also talks about price drops across Europe, not just Germany and the sections I was referring to in my quote specifically address natural gas trading at the Dutch TTF, where many European countries trade, not just Germany. Moreover, the article opens with "The Platts Continental Power Index* (CONTI) fell 8.4% in March to €35.06 per megawatt hour (/MWh) ".

    I realize I could have been a bit more explicit in saying that I think a significant part of the cheap power prices across Europe is due to cheap natural gas.

    we don't need gas turbines, but use pumped storages right now

    As usual with your statements, reality tends to disagree.

    Germanies share of power produced by gas is at the 1% edge

    Damn, do I really have to fact check everything you say? Even this is trivially shown to be false. In fact, you are wrong by an order of magnitude (it's actually 10.6%).

    It is amazing with what steely-eyed conviction you can be so wrong, yet feel so superior.

    You are mixing up cause and effect because you draw uninformed conclusions from facts you don't understand.

    And that coming from somebody who didn't read or understand the first sentence of the article under debate: "continental Europe recorded a fifth consecutive monthly decline in March ". Oh the irony is so sweet.

    Hint: I work/worked in that area.

    And yet you can't read a graph or table or even do the most rudimentary fact-checking of what you say?

  5. Some current data by P51O45YNDgCVY · · Score: 1 · on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly
    The power mix can be looked up online (german site) and historic data including the last 2 years (give the site some 20-30 seconds to render after entering dates, max 30 days). There are some obvious errors within the data (e.g.January or February 2014 has some broken days), so I can't really say, how reliable the data is).

    Power mix (all non-green-sources just displayed gray). http://www.agora-energiewende....

    Import/export germany european grid http://www.agora-energiewende....

    The 22GW solar is now more or less normal during june, but as you can see, there is still a lot to do .

  6. Some current data by P51O45YNDgCVY · · Score: 1 · on Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly
    The power mix can be looked up online (german site) and historic data including the last 2 years (give the site some 20-30 seconds to render after entering dates, max 30 days). There are some obvious errors within the data (e.g.January or February 2014 has some broken days), so I can't really say, how reliable the data is).

    Power mix (all non-green-sources just displayed gray). http://www.agora-energiewende....

    Import/export germany european grid http://www.agora-energiewende....

    The 22GW solar is now more or less normal during june, but as you can see, there is still a lot to do .