***thread relevancy alert*** ala the GG, I scoff at the religion of the denaliti and its agent-in-arms TimG
What I said is Germany had "hit the limit" when it comes to renewable power - meaning I acknowledged that they had increased it but they are the point of a diminishing returns. More importantly, they have to rely on coal for the foreseeable future to provide base load because they closed their nuclear stations. The graphs are completely irrelevant when you consider my point (waldo always does this - when he can't refute the point I make, he piles on with a bunch of irrelevant nonsense and hopes to overwhelm people with detail. In your case his deception appears to have worked).
again, on display: your unsubstantiated opinion! Just released report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance --- Beyond the tipping point: flexibility gaps in future high-renewable energy systems in the UK, Germany and the Nordics’ ---
UK & Germany on course for 50% renewables by mid 2020shttp://images.electricalsector.eaton.com/Web/EatonElectrical/%7B0bb6db95-4584-4578-bcce-4d1ecd60de93%7D_Exec_Summary_Beyond_the_tipping_point_EN.pdfKey findings
- Economic tipping points mean renewable energy will account for over half of electricity generation by the mid-2020s in the UK and Germany
- Renewable energy will meet more demand, more often – driving opportunities for flexibility including storage and increased usage of interconnectors
- System volatility will increase markedly in the UK and Germany – providing opportunities for fast-ramping resources, but creating a challenging environment for non-variable baseload technologies such as nuclear
- Due to lengthy seasonally induced renewable generation gaps, the total back-up capacity needed in 2040 is much the same as in 2017. The ongoing need for this capacity, combined with significant drops in its utilisation, harms the economics of non-renewable generation plants such as coal and gas
- A future energy system in the UK and Germany dominated by variable renewable generation must be complemented by flexible resources – in particular storage. The Nordics’ spare flexibility presents opportunities via interconnectors to plug the potential flexibility gaps in the UK and Germany
Another, less important point, is graphs like the one waldo provided are deceptive because they include "biomass" (e.g. burning trees) as a renewable. I don't consider this sustainable because our power needs vastly exceed the number of trees that can be grown if countries like China and India jumped on the bandwagon.
don't eat that Elmer... that there's TimG bullshyte!
Germany's Bioenergy is principally Biogas from energy crops... but also includes Biogenic Waste, Liquid Biomass and... Solid Biomass which predominantly burn residual and non-recyclable waste wood to produce power and heat. Hey Timmay, if you want to challenge this, put up the respective MW for each of these 4 categories of biomass... sure you will!