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Feldheim, a 150-Person German Village, Powered Entirely by Renewables

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-how-many-electric-vehicles? dept.

Tree Hugga writes:

The electricity is sourced from solar panels, wind turbines, and heat from biogas. In addition they have a backup wood chip furnace. They also have a fairly beefy battery of 10 MW capacity to help level the fluctuations in production. The village runs its own grid and pays less for energy.

News articles: The Independent, The Huffington Post, GreenBiz.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:00PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday December 03 2015, @07:00PM (#271498) Journal

    Wood combustion is almost as bad as coal.
     
    C02 extracted from the atmosphere != C02 that has been sequestered underground for millions of years.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday December 04 2015, @03:04AM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday December 04 2015, @03:04AM (#271671) Journal

    CO2 returned to the atmosphere is still returned.

    Also, people have to breath, and while most american coal plants have scrubbers, no wood stoves do.

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