Half of Germany's Power Supplied By Solar, Briefly

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @03:30AM from the now-imagine-if-solar-and-nuclear-worked-together dept.

assertation (1255714) writes with this interesting tidbit from Reuters about the state of solar power in Germany: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said. The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022.

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Re:Thanks for pointing out the "briefly" part. by drinkypoo · 2014-06-26 01:43 · Score: 1, Troll

No. The point is that Germany had to build coal and gas powered plants to compensate for wind and solar power fluctuations and their decision to dismiss nuclear.
Germany had to build coal and gas powered plants to compensate for their decision to dismiss nuclear. There, FTFY. HTH. HAND.

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