Recently, an editor from Handelsblatt wrote to me in a comment on LinkedIn that nuclear power plants would not help with the energy transition, stating that nuclear power plants would not be controllable and would not help us with the energy transition. Continue reading →
The topic of accumulators as battery storage for Germany and its energy transition is almost a daily topic on Linkedin, and so it recently came to a discussion on LinkedIn again, based on my post from a youtube video from VattenfallWhen the audience heard that the pumped storage in Germany can only supply Germany for 30 minutes, the topic of battery storage came up again, and that Germany could then be operated with it during dark periods.
I did the math:
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One discussion that comes up again and again is that renewable energies are not base load capable, or are they? Well, as it always is, it is not easy to answer and is a question of definition.
Recently I have become aware of the issue of "expropriation of housing" and energy renovation, which affects all of us and by all I mean property owners and also those who rent and rent housing, because tenants will not be spared.
For several years now, the e-cars, BEV, eCar, electric cars and how you want to call all the crap then, state subsidized and gradually these get more freedom, so should be allowed from 2030 in Berlin only electric carsFrom 2030 only electric cars will be allowed in Berlin. Since the Green government (honestly, I hear more from the Greens than from the SPD, which with Olaf Scholz actually provides the Chancellor, but well) is in power, one hears a lot from the Green Party. Children's book author named Robert Habeck who controls and reprimands Germany's economy as Minister of Economics and a Green Minister of Foreign Affairs who likes to 180° confused with 360 and occasionally a country the declaration of war pronounces. So much for the everyday madness.
The energy transition in Germany is in full swing, but is due to the war between Russia and Ukraine and the blowing up of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as well as the boycott of Nord Stream 1, leads to the fact that gas became less, which was now compensated by LNG gas supplies, the German gas storage facilities stood 20.01.2023 (To the graphic), are full, and so far we have been lucky in Germany that the winter so far has not been as cold as previously predicted.
Okay, so just to clarify, Germany wants out of coal and has reduced coal mines in Germany, until before Russia's war, Germany imported 50% of coal from Russia. And now that we lack these imports due to the sanctions against Russia, and we are winding down nuclear power plants, we need other sources of coal. While Poland itself needs the coal as an energy source, Germany has to look elsewhere. Now the coal is being imported from Colombia!!!!!!!
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