Comments on: What if all German households went renewable? https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/ The Global Energiewende Fri, 20 Oct 2017 12:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: editor https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/#comment-4810 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:16:24 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10955#comment-4810 In reply to James Wimberley.

Hi James, glad to have your voice on here. Would you mind trying to post your link again? We do of course allow links to be posted, so it may have been a technical error.

]]> By: James Wimberley https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/#comment-4809 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 11:47:45 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10955#comment-4809 ” …the incentive of high prices towards conservation and efficiency is almost always overlooked..”
Conversely, the subsidized cheap electricity that German industry benefits from is a disincentive to efficiency. IIRC British industry, which does not get cross-subsidized power to anything like the same extent, has been doing quite well on efficiency.

The inability of this site to accept links in comments is a disincentive to readers to provide sources for their assertions. (I’m here as a refugee from Craig’s old sire Renewables International, which allowed URLs),

]]> By: Craig Morris https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/#comment-4808 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 13:48:52 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10955#comment-4808 Janos, I should have put “conventional power plant fleet,” so 7% of around 400 TWh * 7% = 28 TWh

]]> By: Stephen Ferguson https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/#comment-4807 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:06:23 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10955#comment-4807 Craig,
Scotland generated 106% of ALL demand (including industry) on a windy Sunday earlier this month…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/scotland-completely-powered-by-wind-turbines-for-a-day

]]> By: Janos Hettyey https://energytransition.org/2016/08/what-if-all-german-households-went-renewable/#comment-4806 Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:35:26 +0000 http://energytransition.boellblog.org/?p=10955#comment-4806 Hi Craig, thanks for the article. Would you please confirm how you calculated this amount:

“Roughly 7 percent of the electricity that the German power plant fleet generates is consumed on-site, so we can take off another roughly 30 TWh.” If the gross power generation in 2015 was cc 652 TWh than 7% of it equals to 45-46 TWh and not 30 TWh. If I miss something then sorry about that.

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