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Germany to Get 33% of its Electricity From Renewables This Year

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 10 2015, @08:35AM   
from the power-rangers dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Last year, Germany produced 161 billion kWh from renewable sources, or about 27% of electricity consumption. This year, thanks to rapid growth in solar and wind power, the country is on track to produce 193 billion kWh from renewable sources, or about 33% of total electricity consumption. That's grow of about 22% in just a year!

Though this is a preliminary estimate, on 31 October 2015 wind energy had already supplied 47% more electricity (63 billion kWh) that during the same time period in 2014.

        Though the late autumn weather tends to be unpredictable, Germany's solar sector has already provided as much electricity during that 10 month period (35 billion kWh) as the whole of 2014.

Energy independence has real geopolitical implications for Germany vis-a-vis Russia.

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• Re:What we are forgetting. Re:What we are forgetting. (Score: 5, Informative) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:26AM

  by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:26AM (#261166) Journal

  Wow, that's not just anecdotal evidence, it's an anecdote based on hearsay.

  You have proven that you can google up the number of wind turbines in the country easily enough, but somehow you were unable to plug the words "wind turbine disposal" into your preferred search engine. Here [bbc.co.uk], I've done it for you. No mention of landfill whatsoever.

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• Re:What we are forgetting. Re:What we are forgetting. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:38AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 10 2015, @09:38AM (#261169)

  OK, fair enough, yet your link still fails to convince, at least me, that there isn't going to be a big pile of crap somewhere.
  But hey, at least we will get some playgrounds out of the deal with a fresh smell of burning resin as a bonus.

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  • Re:What we are forgetting. (Score: 2, Touché) by Kawumpa on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:10AM

    by Kawumpa (1187) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @10:10AM (#261179)

    Recycling and reuse are completely alien concepts to you, are they?

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  • Re:What we are forgetting. (Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday November 10 2015, @12:00PM

    by c0lo (156) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @12:00PM (#261200) Journal

    But hey, at least we will get some playgrounds out of the deal with a fresh smell of burning resin as a bonus.

    I smell a whiff of hypocrisy around.
    I mean, look, I reckon disposable party plates/cutlery over 25 years will amount for more plastic than that in the wind turbine blades. Not worry about that one?

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  • Re:What we are forgetting. (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:47PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday November 10 2015, @04:47PM (#261322) Journal

    OK, fair enough, yet your link still fails to convince, at least me, that there isn't going to be a big pile of crap somewhere.
     
    What seems the more reasonable proposition for turbine disposal:
    Get paid thousands of dollars for all that valuable scrap metal.
     
    Or, pay thousands of dollars to bury that scrap metal.
     
    I know which itch the invisible hand is scratching in this case....

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