Comments on: Green Tiger: Time for Germany’s coal exit https://energytransition.org/2018/04/green-tiger-time-for-germanys-coal-exit/ The Global Energiewende Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Energiewende Team https://energytransition.org/2018/04/green-tiger-time-for-germanys-coal-exit/#comment-6661 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:36:16 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17138#comment-6661 In reply to Misha Sibirsk.

See the chart – 37.6% renewable power generation. Share in final consumption is different, and we have addressed that in multiple other articles on this site.

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By: Energiewende Team https://energytransition.org/2018/04/green-tiger-time-for-germanys-coal-exit/#comment-6660 Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:34:53 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17138#comment-6660 In reply to Jarmo.

“today almost 40% of Germany’s energy is regularly *GENERATED* by renewables.”

Power consumption does not equal power generation. Generation last year was 37.6% renewable – see chart in this article, sourced from energycharts.de

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By: Misha Sibirsk https://energytransition.org/2018/04/green-tiger-time-for-germanys-coal-exit/#comment-6654 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 07:14:56 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17138#comment-6654 “…today almost 40% of Germany’s energy is regularly generated by renewables.”

…and a comparable comment regarding coal.

No, they’re not! Till about twenty years ago, the equation of power with (all) energy was understandable, among the non-cognoscenti anyway. Now, it’s a hanging offence. While Germany does have renewables projects for destinations other than electricity, and while the sole saving grace to its recent sqirming away from its erstwhile headline heroics in terms of power transition targets has been an apparently greater emphasis on transition in the non-electrical modes, it has reached nowhere near 40% of renewables for all energy. Without checking, I would be reasonably confident that it is still below 20%. (Love to learn I was wrong about that.) For most substantial countries, 15 – 40 % would encompass the range of electric power as a proportion of total energy consumption – I think it’s about 25% for Germany. Of course, one way of addressing transition in other modes is to bring them into the ambit of electricity, e.g. the electrification of transport, now with a rising profile.

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By: Jarmo https://energytransition.org/2018/04/green-tiger-time-for-germanys-coal-exit/#comment-6644 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:47:55 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=17138#comment-6644 “today almost 40% of Germany’s energy is regularly generated by renewables.”

CLEW for example states that renewables account for 13 % of Germany’s energy consumption and fossil fuels about 80%. The rest is nuclear.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

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