Infographic — A Summer Day in Germany

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This week, Germany got wonderful sunny weather all over the place, which made me hopeful that a new solar power record might be around the corner. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen on Monday, but 21.7 GW of peak output and 184 GWh aren’t bad either! That’s Giga with a G, as in 184 million kWhs.

To illustrate the meaning of having such summer days, I created the little infographic below. Keep in mind that, with solar installations still soaring in Germany, such power outputs are destined to become the norm sooner than later.

The last piece of information on that graphic is rather important, in my opinion, because EVs are already the perfect commuter cars, and when are most commuter cars usually parked? Between 8 AM and 6 PM, when their owners are parked behind a desk. And when do people usually watch TV? After 8 PM, when their electric commuter cars are plugged in at home.

Since increasing solar capacity by 2-10 times is not really a problem, considering the untapped roof potential, and the idea of millions of EVs by 2030 doesn’t really sound abstract… where’s the storage problem again?


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