Feddit (Beta)In a First, Solar Was Europe's Biggest Source of Power Last Month
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Headline is aweful and misleading. In April, Solar was highest energy source FOR TRAILING 12 months. That it was more in June, likely means solar was highest energy source for trailing 12 and 14 months. FF electricity is dropping off significantly in Europe. Even more down this year than it was in 2023/2024.
This is such extreme incompetence in reporting from Yale.
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harbardWhere are you seeing anything about energy? it says power — which includes, but isn’t limited to, electricity.
Non-solar was the 2nd biggest source at 78%
Most of it wind/hydro/nuclear. Sure coal and NG combined was higher. But they are both declining rapidly.
kalkulatSolar/wind & batteries will become so cheap nothing else will be able to stay in business. Already happening. Smart investors all going there.
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Good. Next we have to get rid of cars where they are not necessary, because they block the transition to climate-friendly person transport.
Now do December/January, those are the hard months for solar.
One step at a time. But wind will likely always do better than solar in winter.
It's not so bad if you take wind & hydro into account. Germany managed over 56% renewables in January (and over 70% in June!) Those are really great numbers.
Great stuff, just needs some mass-produced cheap industrial batteries to buffer inter-day variation and some backup to ensure winter.
The point wasn’t 100% solar, the point is 100% renewables. You’re going to offset it with things like wind, hydro and energy storage that can pick up the slack and complement each other.
Hydro storage is pretty good paired with solar but you need to have lots of hydro to start with.
I'm surprised we're not doing more green hydrogen as an energy battery system to balance out the grid.
It seems like that would work quite well, with the only energy loss being the pressurising to liquid hydrogen, but even then you can recover some of that by recovering the heat when it expands again.
Bad idea for cars, but giant canisters sat around near wind farms seems like it would be fine.
We’re working on it, climate change is accelerating…
Mid-winter, there is usually quite some wind. See the graph in the link.
There are challenging moments, though. But storage for weeks, not months, might be robust enough.
ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-is-eus-biggest-power-source-for-the-first-time-ever/