This article was first published on Lenz Blog with the title, “Nuclear Decline in Germany Not Compensated 100 Percent by Renewable” (it’s relevant further down in the article). One of the recent pro-nuclear talking points is the fact that there is still coal burned in the German electricity sector. For … [continued]
This article was first published on Lenz Blog. EU Commissioner De Gucht has announced that the antidumping case on Chinese solar panels has been settled. Chinese makers will have to sell solar panels at a minimum price, and there will be a ceiling on exports to the EU from China. The official … [continued]
Two statements in the video were most interesting to me. For one, a spokesman for Newcom (the owner of the wind farm) remarked that Mongolia has enough wind resources in one Southern province (I assume he was talking about Ömnögovi (meaning “South Gobi”) to power all of China. That’s true. It … [continued]
This article was first published on Lenz Blog. Mark Lynas just released an “Amazon short” title called Nuclear 2.0. The book description at Amazon has this to say: Lynas shows that with wind and solar still at only about 1 percent of global primary energy, asking renewables to deliver all the … [continued]
Christian Roselund kindly wrote a debunking article about a post published last week titled “How Fast are the Costs of Solar Really Coming Down?“. It was written by staff of the Breakthrough Institute, and it is full of false statements, but I’m repeating myself. One of the false statements says that cost … [continued]
This article was first published on Lenz Blog. TedX talk by Professor Heindl on his idea of storing energy: I have blogged about this concept before, in November 2011. I like it. As Heindl explains in this talk, it is cheap (per kWh), has a high efficiency, and a low footprint. … [continued]
This article was first published on Lenz Blog. The Desertec Foundation just announced that they are leaving the Desertec Industrial Initiative. There probably are some reasons for such a step, which obviously won’t help getting anything done. But none of those reasons are really explained in any meaningful way in the press … [continued]
This article first appeared on the Lenz Blog From this tweet by the always excellent Energiewende Germany I learned about an article titled “Hydrogen plant starts storing wind energy in Germany“. As is clear from the title, this is another project to use wind energy in times where demand can’t keep up … [continued]
This is a repost, first posted on Lenz Blog last September, when the EU anti-dumping investigations started. Now they have led to provisional anti-dumping duties, as Trade Commissioner van Gucht just announced. These start out at 11.8% tomorrow and will be raised massively to an average 47.6% two months later if … [continued]
This article first appeared on the Lenz Blog Says Ashley Seager in this article at the Guardian titled “Renewable energy’s clean, cheap and here – what’s stopping us?” He knows that from his own experience running a company called AEA solar GmbH that is actually installing solar on German barn … [continued]
