Germany Sets New Solar Power Record

May 28th, 2012
Via: Reuters:
German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.
The German government decided to abandon nuclear power after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022.
They will be replaced by renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and bio-mass.
Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 percent of the nation’s midday electricity needs.
“Never before anywhere has a country produced as much photovoltaic electricity,” Allnoch told Reuters. “Germany came close to the 20 gigawatt (GW) mark a few times in recent weeks. But this was the first time we made it over.”
The record-breaking amount of solar power shows one of the world’s leading industrial nations was able to meet a third of its electricity needs on a work day, Friday, and nearly half on Saturday when factories and offices were closed.

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through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday,

What do they usually produce?  What do they produce at night?

Power isn't only needed on clear sunny days.  If the surplus energy can't be stored, what real advantage does this solar electricity provide?

On the contrary: this massive usage of solar electricity and wind farms is so unreliable for a highly industrialised, productive and relatively small country like Germany with a need of constant power supply, that this new energy "turnaround" in reality means the country will be de-industrialised and hence economically destroyed.

The formerly reliable German power supply already has been destroyed by the  international investors aka money-masters (of course via sell-out by the "German" governments) who suck any of their "invested" prey until its's dead. So the poor Germans in "Federal Reserve of Germany" had to buy power from their neighbours like Austria etc, in order to avoid blackouts during the recent cold winter season (February with -25° Celsius) ...

But soon even this additionally purchased power won't help in future...

I think that's the plan.

Well, I only got detailed German reports on Germany's situation, see below please. Also I'm only diving into this not-so-important thread because you asked so politely:


The main problem, put in a nutshell in my basic English words, is simple however, except for modern politicians :

a) Solar energy in West Europe only works when the sun shines nicely, and wind energy only works here when the wind blows nicely, i.e. not too little sun shine, and not too little wind please, but also not too much wind please, otherwise the monster rotors must be halted...
There's no efficient way yet to store unneeded power in batteries, so both energy sources are neither constant nor reliable in Germany, where large parts of the country have got typical English weather.

b) Add to this the fact that 1) the solar cells are so expensive to produce, that they can only be installed with the massive help of taxes, i.e. with classical socialist money redistribution. And 2) the big wind rotors die in a few years due to material exhaustion, which makes wind farms the joke of the century. The English got nice long time reports on this hushed up fact.

(Because Germany is totally bankrupt, the formerly invented tax help for the "energy change" is cut massively now, and so the German industry which focused on producing alternative energy supplies during the "energy change"'s hype, dies now and dies rapidly. Well, the whole "energy change" is one ideological flop, as is anything invented by today's godless politicians.)

c) An highly industrialised country like Germany needs a constant and reliable power supply for industry and people.
Last year (Fukushima), the German politicians started the so called "energy change" and since then bet extremely on solar and wind energy. Already this winter the Germans faced the first results: nearly-blackouts, usually in the most industrialised parts like Bavaria, see below. So the poor Germans had to buy emergeny energy from their neighbours, for example from my beloved Austria (hydro-electric power), from France (nuclear power, oh oh!), etc.

The sentence in the report below from 9 May 2012: "Companies and consumers will have to reorient [their energy consumption] in the coming years" just means that the industry would have to work only when the sun shines nicely, and when the wind blows nicely... which is another word for systematical destruction of the industry.

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Some recent German reports from an established economical newspaper, partly Google-translated :


9 May 2012
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/energie/bundesnetzagentur-das-bittere-fazit-aus-einem-jahr-energiewende/6611442.html

The bitter conclusion of one year of "energy change"

The German Federal Power-supply Agency has published an 100-page report on the electricity supply in Germany last winter, the first winter after the energy change.
The bottom line: The shutdown of eight nuclear power stations and the many new wind and solar electricity in Germany have changed the energy supply situation dramatically. Companies and consumers will have to reorient themselves in the coming years. The 14 most important experiences.
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15 May 2012
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/mittelstand/windkraft-und-solarenergie-zukunftstechnik-wird-zur-pleitebranche/6344790.html

"Future energy" industry goes bankrupt

Depreciation, losses, bankruptcy - electricity from renewable energy sources is becoming a drop business for mid-sized and large companies.
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26 May 2012
http://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/energiewende-in-bayern-droht-der-blackout/6668186.html

Imminent blackout due to "energy change" in Bavaria

In no other county is the power supply so critical as in Bavaria. Experts warn of a energy blackout.
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