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Germany Sets New National Record With 85 Percent of Its Electricity Sourced From Renewables (digitaltrends.com)
Germany was able to set a new national record for the last weekend of April with 85 percent of all electricity consumed in the country being produced from renewables -- wind, solar, biomass, and hydroelectric power. Digital Trends reports: Aided by a seasonal combination of windy but sunny weather, during that weekend the majority of Germany's coal-fired power stations weren't even operating, while nuclear power stations (which the country plans to phase out by the year 2022) were massively reduced in output. To be clear, this is impressive even by Germany's progressive standards. By comparison, in March just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed in the country came from renewable sources. However, while the end-of-April weekend was an aberration, the hope is that it won't be for too much longer. According to Patrick Graichen of the country's sustainability-focused Agora Energiewende Initiative, German renewable energy percentages in the mid-80s should be "completely normal" by the year 2030.
The 200-foot high Matilija Dam (left, photo courtesy of Matilija Coalition), has completely filled in with sediment in only thirty years. It has been decommissioned and the process of removing the dam and restoring the river has begun.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You know, electricity was cheap in Canada until they started pushing "green energy" too. Then it started going through the roof because everyone get's screwed over paying FiT's and rebates for the programs. Oh yes, just love the $0.188kWh, when it was 0.08kWh at peak. And now with the lying Liberal government here in Ontario, and their attempt to buy people off by taking a massive loan to give a short-term paydown, well electricity rates are going to go through the roof. Watch for the absolute shit-show that's going to happen, especially coupled with the carbon taxes being pushed. People are already at the "electricity or roof over head" stage.
What do people think is going to happen when prices go up 40% when all this is figured in and wages continue to remain stagnant. Hell over the last 10 years, the CoL in Ontario has gone up ~20% and wages have gone up by around 2-5%. The only place where wages have gone up more is in the public sector(around 10%).
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Define "short term" because here in Ontario, we're at ~16 years and the costs just keep going up. It's completely screwed up the electricity system of Ontario as well. So much so that even the government that parroted it for over a decade is say well, we screwed up. You know why they're saying that? Because they're about to go from a majority to a non-party and are trying to salvage themselves.
Now the kicker is people use less electricity and the prices keep going up, just like how they claimed that "ToD" meters would make electricity cheap. And the costs of it kept going up. This whole idea of paying via FiT and green energy rebates doesn't work and only makes people poorer. Hell it drives businesses out, which means governments need to find new tax bases. So who are the first taxed? Shouldn't be hard for anyone to figure out, but if you need a hint, it's not businesses. And the Federal Liberal Party is pushing for this exact same garbage on Canada.
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You know, electricity was cheap in Canada until they started pushing "green energy" too.
Electricity was cheap in Australia too before they started pushing green energy. Except green energy had nothing to do with the price. Along with green energy came major infrastructure investments and the decree that we should never again have power outages. The gold plating began.
Causation vs correlation. A lot has happened in the power generation and transmission business in the past 15 years all over the world.
What do people think is going to happen when prices go up 40% when all this is figured in and wages continue to remain stagnant.
They stop running the AC and Heater at the same time? Many other countries have coped just fine, except that where I live prices didn't go up 40% they went up 350%. We are also coping just fine and then were one of the few to avoid a major recession during the crisis. The Canadians are worse than the Americans when it comes to average electricity consumption. Fortunately you're marginally better in actual emissions but you have still a way to go before you start getting an emissions footprint as good as China.
Maybe it's time prices reflected what you do to the world and then you can start looking for alternatives.
My point exactly. But if you want to compare the situation in Germany to the USA, they also on average use less than half the electricity per person, so that "high" cost of green energy isn't anywhere near as bad as Americans may think.
They seem to be on to something, this country that is the size of a state, and yet is the 4th largest economy in the world. Most interesting when viewed per capita.
And we all can cut our electrical consumption a lot without affecting our quality of life.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Probably because there was very little scandal in Solyndra unless you listen to the conservative echo chamber. Much of the money loaned to Solyndra was eventually returned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
Solyndra was used by the echo chamber as an example of how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was a boondoggle, except the solar program part of it ended up returning a profit for the government in the and and the ARRA was in total a broad success. Conservative keep trying to use that canard as a reason to criticize Obama when there is ample evidence to the contrary if they actually cared to look it up. If they did honest research they would find the Republicans at the time did many things to sabotage that bill, cutting out the most stimulating portions of it creating the slow recovery situation we've been living in since the Great Recession. Yet all they can do is blame Obama or HRC or anybody but conservatives or republican actions and policies.
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