Comments on: How Distributed Solar Can Reduce Electricity Prices http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 06:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: 10 German Solar Energy Myths Bjørn Lomborg is Spreading http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-122857 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:26:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-122857 […] about how solar PV reduces the price of electricity on February 9th and John Farrell posted a piece on it again on February 13th — I don’t think Lomborg caught either of […]

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-118800 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:56:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-118800 The post above is updated with the proper terms.

]]> By: KellyEO http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-118768 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-118768 Zach,

What’s the resolution on this? What are the proper terms John should be using?

P.S. – doing some research and need to be accurate!

Thanks!

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113751 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:55:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113751 Note that we’re discussing TWh above, not TW.

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113693 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:12:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113693 Yeah, I updated it. I don’t know where I was looking before, when I wrote that comment,.. or if my eyes were crossed. But I checked again and updated it,.. and now just saw your comment as well. Thanks for the catch. :D

]]> By: Karl-Friedrich Lenz http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113649 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:48:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113649 For some reason I can’t reply to the last comment by Zachary Shahan, so I’ll post the answer here.

Solar_power_in_Germany at Wikipedia has 3,075 GWh for 2007, which would be 3.075 TWh. What would be the page where it is 3 GWh?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113647 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:56:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113647 Hmm, my source on wikipedia has it wrong too, then… it’s got it as GWh

]]> By: Karl-Friedrich Lenz http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113628 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113628 Both figures are TWh. The error comes from the fact that in German people write 18.500 when in English you would write 18,500, so it is easy for someone with English as a native language to misread the graph in the IZES study you cited.

Growth from 3 TWh to 18 is impressive; from 3 GWh to 18 TWh is impossible even in Germany :)

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113615 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:54:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113615 Thanks! Corrected it here — will make sure John sees and corrects it anywhere else it’s published, too. Looks like the 2007 figure was actually, gigawatt-hours, though — probably where the slip-up originated :D.

]]> By: Karl-Friedrich Lenz http://cleantechnica.com/2012/02/13/how-distributed-solar-can-reduce-electricity-prices/#comment-113458 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:35:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=34895#comment-113458 *Ahem* That would be 18 *TWh* of solar in Germany 2011, or 18.52 TWh to be exact.

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