Why Small European Nations far Eclipse Germany in Wind and Solar Deployment
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In the USA there is no renewable energy; at least as far as the mainstream media goes. Oil, gas and coal are 'energy'. Solar and wind are expensive hobbies. Big money maintains the staus quo. This is great news Sam, and Europe will soon see much cheaper prices for energy than the USA. A great economic boost for Europe and China will follow.
Here in Portugal there are quite many days throughout the year where 100% of electricity comes from renewables. You see wind farms and solar panels everywhere.
The amount of sunlight days and very low wind levels comparitively speaking lower the production. Germany needs nuclear.
When a country meets their target I would love to see some of their “green” experts go help another country that is struggling with their targets.
Don't worry about the Germany targets: the delevopement of renewables was initially torpedoed by political fights in the early 2000s and 2010s, but the same way they chose in 2001 to entirely retire their nuclear in 2022 and failed only for 6 months (April 2023) they are now entirely in the wagon of renewables (specially after the Ukraine war) and they have plans to entirely remove coal in 2035 and I'm sure that their targets of renewables for 2045 will be reached. There's no backpedaling for any of those countries: you can count 100% that they will honor their promises (not only due environmental motivations but also because in terms of business there's no other path!). The only two things I'm afraid of is the waste of resources in hydrogen projects and France's obsession with keeping nuclear (EDF is essentailly broken, and yet they plan to build new power plants with green founds from Europe instead of pushing full renewables and dealing with the dire prospect of retiring their aged power plants (which were made mostly to share the costs of building they nuclear arsenal and not due they were profitable).
From 2013 up to 2020 conservatives/Rightwingers destroyed 70,000 jobs in photovoltaics. From 2017 to 2020 they destroyed over 48,000 jobs in on- and offshore wind. They also did everything to damage public transport so more people would use cars…obviously bribed by the ICE and the oil industry.
Location, location, location…to each region the most appropriate alternative…plus improvements in types of delivery grids.
You might be aware that here in the UK, although we have around 40% of Europe’s wind energy, our incredibly corrupt government here (the Tory Party basically), has effectively banned ON-shore wind building due to their own planning laws, which dictate that if only one person objects to a wind turbine, then planning is refused. By being an island, we also have the best tidal and wave energy potential in Europe. There’s more hydro and pumped storage capacity potential too. All this is largely abandoned by our government for instead the licensing and opening of new fossil fuel projects. Conversely, state incentives have been cut for insulation, mandatory solar on new buildings, EVs, charge points, and worst of all, the “torched earth” policy unleashed to small – scale domestic renewable subsidies. Instead, most of these politicians are on the take from fossil fuel corporations and lobbyists as well backing “wrong horses” such as hydrogen, carbon capture and building out the slowest, most expensive form of electricity known to man: foreign owned, large – scale nuclear power. Otherwise, the public and private sector have done pretty well in the UK, Scotland especially.
The sun does not shine in Germany! The same panel in Spain will deliver at least double the electricity.
And the wind only blows in the north.
Germany needs nuclear, like France, Finland and UK.
with the natural gas gone there burning coal to make up the difference they shouldn't be shutting down there nuclear plants right now that makes 0 sense
Love your stuff Sam. Australia should by now have been around 80% plus renewable. LNP held this country back for 9 years and instead subsidized the fossil fuel industries massively. Now is the opportunity to hit the ALP to surge Australia’s renewable energy to the utmost. Will never happen under an LNP government. Hit the ALP heavy and now to act
NG natural gas is NOT a lot better than coal. When you factor in all the leakages of methane up and down the supply chain the CO2 Equivalents are right there with coal. We have to stop burning things, and in some ways NG is the worst fossil fuel. We don't need new NG plants. Solar Wind and Batteries SWB is the answer. And, it's here now and they are all getting better and cheaper. We can power everything with that mix. Elon Musk, when asked about fusion, says we've already got the biggest and best fusion generator, the sun. We just need to convert its output into electricity.
Germany certainly isn't very sunny and is a poor Solar candidate. Spain or Italy obviously have far more sun. Sunny locations don't need as many batteries. Germany also is generally not very windy; they would need enough batteries to supply power for months – not a viable idea. Lithium is a dead end; but there is potential with Sodium. Still you have to ask why do all this? It isn't going to reduce CO2 as much as simply mass carpooling Imediately would. For Europe the answer might be energy independence; maybe they are OK to pay more for power as long as they are not dependent on Russia and the middle east.
China is building 2 coal plants a week – don't tell me how brilliant they are with EVs. They are burning your Australian coal and you get their unstable solution; wind and solar with battery storage. Austrlia is becoming a colony of China; selling it's raw resources, iron and coal in exchange for dubious finished goods. Australia used to be an up and coming manufacture; now about the only things Australia makes are shoes made from sheep skin.
While renewable capacity sounds like major achievement it does not appear to translate to consumer benefits via what consumers pay. I can vouch that rates in Spain are falling thanks to renewables, specially after the crazy 2022 environment. An analysis comparing user rates would be needed to see how it impacts our pocket. BTW, I would include in this business rates as it can have a major effect in how countries attract new business – watching RSymons videos where he mentions rates of 90 pence/kWh which I find just absolutely ridiculous.
Germany is over 60% already… Spain hits 100% every f***g day.
I think the war in Ukraine has changed everything in Europe. The impression in Europe before the war was that Putin was peaceful and it was ok to get fossil fuels from Russia. Now it has all changed and Europe is looking to be power independent that renewables has shown us to be possible.
Personally I am fuel independent, with solar power providing enough power in the summer, to 100% supply my house and car with electricity and a bit left over.
So we all can be independent of the grid most of the time and even help supplement the national grid, every roof top has the possibility of becoming a power station.
It is always like this in Germany. We need ages to do big things like this. Like an archer with 5 arrows. Others start by trying. First shot miss, second better and the last three hit. Germany instead is measuring windspeed angles, environment. Calculate the time when to shoot that no one gets hit. And then all 5 arrows have to hit perfect.
I wish we would be more like others. „Just do it“
Our federal system is the biggest breaker joined by regulations.
Hallo from my 2nd home in Spain. I have done the road trip from London to southern Spain by EV now 4 times the last 2 years. On each trip it has been noticeable how France and Spain have been rolling out charging infrastructure at an impressive rate. Doing the road trip in my iPace (in spite of far worse charging speeds and range than newer EVs) has been just a joy on all 4 trips. Even the doggies agree!
As for Spain’s move to renewables, I have just had my electricity rate renewed, with a 40% reduction from the 2022 rates. Thank you, Octopus Spain! 8 hours cheap night electricity at 13c/kwh, and day peak still only 20c/kwh.
Compared to the UK, where I was happy to not face another increase.
Somehow Spain is getting it right, moving to cleaner and cheaper energy.
And yes, the sun is out and there is a light breeze here- lots of green electrons flowing!
When Poland doing better than Germany, when they have law which at most blocking wind energy…
Germany continues to stand in its own way here vs realizing that we’re living in a global world that will quickly pass us up like we’re standing still if we don’t deregulate and kick renewables into high gear now!
The fact there is much more wind Great Britain and much more sun in Spain than in Germany may be an explaination ! LOL
Small European nations.! The UK is the third largest nation in Europe after Russia and Germany.
Not just Germany struggling with planning and regulations. Here in the UK, we could be world leaders in onshore wind if it wasn't for the combination of NIMBY'S and planning rules.
1. Spain and the UK are not small for Europe, they belong to the nations with the most inhabitants in Europe. Both have much more than Australia.
2. Do some fact checking before your periodically anti-German rant. Germany has more alternative Power installed than all the countries together and Germany is much more industrialized.
Germany may be phasing out their own nuclear. But they have a 5gw interconnect to France. Yes, asi type in a sunny windy weekend day. Germany is sending 3gw to France, but by 5pm that will reverse and France will be sending German nuclear power over night.
Germany is not phasing out nuclear enegery, it's turned off since 2023-04-15.
Renewables were not pushed during the 16 years of Merkel government. She increased dependance on gas from Russia instead during that time.
Germany is a federal republic and hence every of the 16 states can have different rules say for wind energy.
Bavaria has made it next to impossible to build wind farms there. Perhaps that gets you votes but you end up importing electricity there.
As long as this sort of nonsense persists Germany will be slowed down in the adoption of more renewable energy.
In the current colaition (SPD, Grüne, FDP) the FDP slows things considerably down and I do not understand why our chancelor let's them do this.
https://youtu.be/u-DsDuTceTo
https://youtu.be/XhPSSjI9jJU