German solar: 10 hours of sun in December makes 40 Gigawatts of nothing From
Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone:
Germany needs 80GW of electricity.
It has 40GW of installed solar PV.
…
In December, Germany got ten hours
of sunlight. That’s not a daily figure, that’s the whole month. So in summer on
a sunny day, solar PV can make half the electricity the nation needs for lunch.
In winter, almost nothing. From fifty percent, to five percent.
Imagine what kind of havoc this kind
of energy flux can do. Not one piece of baseload capital equipment can be
retired, despite the fact that half of it is randomly unprofitable depending on
cloud cover. Solar PV eats away the low cost competitive advantage. Capital
sits there unused, spinning on standby, while wages, interest, and other costs
keep accruing. So hapless baseload suppliers charge more for the hours that
they do run, making electricity more expensive.
They just need batteries with three
months supply. It will be fine once Germany turns the state
of Thuringia into a redox unit.
Read about it:
Dark Days For German Solar Power, Country Saw Only 10 Hours Of Sun In All Of
December!
It’s rare for Germans to botch up an
engineering task on quite this scale.
http://joannenova.com.au/2018/01/german-solar-10-hours-of-sun-in-december-makes-40-gigawatts-of-nothing/
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