Comments on: We are the Energiewende: German villages go 100% renewable https://energytransition.org/2018/01/we-are-the-energiewende-german-villages-go-100-renewable/ The Global Energiewende Thu, 08 Feb 2018 05:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Jake https://energytransition.org/2018/01/we-are-the-energiewende-german-villages-go-100-renewable/#comment-6319 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 05:58:32 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16432#comment-6319 Very interesting to read that only a few homes in the villages mentioned above don’t use power from renewable sources. The infrastructure built into these towns has already compiled into great green development. I also liked what the local mayors were saying about how the people in the villages represent the very fabric of Energiewende, transcending the movement into a way of life rather than a policy. You can find more on that on my blog! Feel free to visit http://jakeroseliuseuropeanunion.weebly.com/european-union-blog to check out what I’ve compiled.

]]> By: James Wimberley https://energytransition.org/2018/01/we-are-the-energiewende-german-villages-go-100-renewable/#comment-6199 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 12:10:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16432#comment-6199 “The operators can afford to pay thanks to the feed-in tariff or other forms of national subsidy.” The point will not need making to most readers, but it is still important not to fall for the WSJ assimilation of FITs to subsidies. Older German FITs are indeed subsidised (not subsidies), to the extent that the price guarantee is above a fair market value.

Of course, nobody really knows what this is. The spot or day-ahead wholesale prices are a poor proxy, as they only represent part of consumption. Renewables can offer long-term PPAs in a way that fossil generators cannot; these are also true market prices. But in Germany the PPA market is SFIK thin. The smoothed wholesale spot price can be safely used as a lower bound, though. It’s not at all obvious that current FITs offered to new community wind farms include any significant subsidy.

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2018/01/we-are-the-energiewende-german-villages-go-100-renewable/#comment-6198 Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:50:05 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16432#comment-6198 100% achieved in the national grid on 1st of January at 6.00 hours:

http://renews.biz/109715/germans-notch-renewables-record/

The Federal Grid Agency (“Bundesnetzagentur”):

https://www.smard.de/blueprint/servlet/page/bnetza-en/5790

More elaborated the Sueddeutsche Zeitung(in German):

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/oekostrom-an-neujahr-versorgte-sich-deutschland-erstmals-nur-mit-oekostrom-1.3813875

]]> By: heinbloed https://energytransition.org/2018/01/we-are-the-energiewende-german-villages-go-100-renewable/#comment-6196 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:04:27 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=16432#comment-6196 OT

There is an Energiewende wiki (in German language) covering 19 nations:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende_nach_Staaten

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