In recent months, we’ve reported a couple of times on what was rumored to become a new incentive program for electric vehicles in Germany. The federal government this week announced that the program plan and budget is finalized. Electric Vehicle Purchase Incentives (The Details) As we noted less than a month ago, … [continued]
Originally published on Renewables International. By Craig Morris Just a week after approaching 90 percent renewable power or more, Germany may have reached 100% yesterday. But the data estimates are still moving. JOURNALISTS: please check the bullet points below before reporting. Just a week after reporting a peak of more … [continued]
Originally published on Renewables International. By Craig Morris Putting the Ente in Energiew-Ente It turns out that the Agorameter only estimates the current load, and repeatedly the estimate has come in around 10 GW too low. The alleged 100% renewable power peak on Sunday now looks closer to 82%. First, … [continued]
Originally published on Renewables International. By Craig Morris What to do about all that excess electricity at times of low or negative spot market prices? Use it to generate heat in a district heat network! Increasingly, firms and communities are investing in power-to-heat or P2H systems in Germany. Last year, … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. We arrived at the Bavarian village of Iffeldorf the morning after the first snow, in late November, 2015. Dr. Uta Raeder, Co-Director of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) facility, greeted us in the parking lot. We huddled close, straining to catch her words before the wind … [continued]
Debunking the clean energy myth that renewable costs are more expensive than traditional fossil fuels
Debunking the clean energy myth that excess generation of wind or solar generation must be curtailed or stored
The eStorage Project, a consortium of European stakeholders in the “electric power value chain,” has released a study identifying a massive 2291 GWh of development-ready sites having existing reservoirs which can be used as new pumped hydro energy storage plants in the EU-15, Norway, and Switzerland. Southern Norway is the region … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Germany set a new renewable energy record over the weekend, when solar, wind, biomass and hydro combined to supply as much as 90 per cent of the country’s total power demand at times, and sent power prices into the negative for several hours. … [continued]
Originally published on Renewables International. By Craig Morris The visualization of data continues in Germany. Now, German blogger Thorsten Zoerner provides an overview of capacity factors for conventional generators – with assumptions about how much higher they would be without renewable electricity. The new website (in German) shows capacity factors … [continued]
