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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday May 18 2017, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-happens-when-it-rains dept.

Germany recently broke its record for renewable energy generation by having 85 percent of its electricity come from renewable sources over the last weekend of April. On April 30, the bulk of electricity consume came from a mix of solar, wind, biomass and hydroelectric power. The record breaking clean energy was thanks to breezy and sunny weather in the north and warm weather in the south, providing plenty of sunlight and wind.

"Most of Germany's coal-fired power stations were not even operating on Sunday, April 30th, with renewable sources accounting for 85 per cent of electricity across the country," said Patrick Graichen of Agora Energiewende Initiative. "Nuclear power sources, which are planned to be completely phased out by 2022, were also severely reduced."

The country's Energiewende program aims to see a clean energy revolution by 2050. Graichen says that the tide will really start to turn by 2030 when many of the investments made by Germany since 2010 will come to fruition and majority or even totally renewable-powered days will become the norm.

Will producing its energy locally confer a strategic economic advantage on Germany, or is it just for bragging rights?


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  • (Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Friday May 19 2017, @05:55AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Friday May 19 2017, @05:55AM (#512038)

    Once you burn the trees, the "carbon" does not stay in the EU!

    Except that the "carbon" is contemporary carbon, not fossil. There is a difference, Duckduckgo it.

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