12 years have passed since the German parliament adopted the “Renewable Energy Sources Act” on the 29th March of 2000 . This law was primarily developed by Hermann Scheer who developed the underlying concepts during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Up until his death in 2010, Dr. Scheer was one of the most significant and uncompromising proponents of renewable energy sources in Germany and around the world. The law that gave priority to renewable energy sources, guaranteed access to the grid for renewables and included a comprehensive feed-in-tarrif system became known as “Scheers-Law” around the world. Today it has been introduced to some extent by over 60 countries and states around the globe. Since this historic push for a 100% renewable energy supply began, there have been countless developements & success stories in the field of clean energy & energy efficency around the world. But the most important success of “Scheers-Law” is without doubt the commercialization of photovoltaic technology. In the middle of the last decade many companies around the world started to massivly expand their production capacity for silicon & other materials required to make PV-solar systems. This solar gold rush that lead to investments around the globe was mainly driven by demand in Germany up untill recently. The first effects of this developement? Since 2009 the prices for PV-solar systems have fallen by up to 70% and continue to decline. Today industry experts claim that photovoltaic …
While it is not a 100% complete coverage of all RE, you can check out:
transparency.eex.com/en/
It’s the transparency platform of the european energy exchange and it shows wind & solar production. What it doesn’t represent is the complete hydro capacity (it’s mixed in the convention-black- bars) and RE from biomass. The later has been growing quite significantly and while I am not sure in which pattern they are feeding in power, it’s should be in the category of 4 GW 24/7.
Also on the charts 12am should be 12pm. Noon is 12pm, midnight is 12am.
Thanks for the notes…unfortunatly it’s abit difficult to change now. But I will keep that in mind for future videos.
I am used to the 24h clock, so putting 12 pm right after 11am naturally made no sense for me. I actually struggle with alot of the non-continental date/time formats. Quite confusing conventions when one is used to different systems
Excellent video. Thank you.
Another great source is [Google for] ‘PV electricity produced in Germany. SMA Solar Technology AG’ – this shows real time solar PV production for Germany. Today it reached 16 GW peak output and will be hitting perhaps 25 GW in summer.
The revolution has begun – and our German friends are taking the lead. I applaud them.
Thanks a lot! I was searching for this kind of website. It is cool to follow the actual productions in Germany and Austria. I wish we get this in Holland too.
Wonderful! Free the people from the reigns of centralized energy sources. I’d love if everyone had a few windmills and solar panels, and plenty of thermal mass in their homes to retain the temperature. We can build an optimized future, with smart free market planning.
Excellent info.
Wish you would have slowed up the slide show.
Waaaaay tooooo fast for us older folks.
I see what you did there with the selection of the hours!
However, the video is much to fast to actually follow; you need to pause it every time you want to take a look at the numbers! It seems to be designed as a static infographic, but then adapted into a movie-like thing.
The younger folks also can’t keep up.
The idea was to give the impression that wind & solar are significant every day… that’s why I focused on following the rather fast beat of the music.
Now some people simply enjoy the colorful bars going up.. others try to read the details and get frustrated. I will do better next time… hope you enjoy it anyways.
Well, to be perfectly honest it’s already the slow version
But I recognize the problem… while I can’t fix this video now, I will keep it in mind for future projects!
Looking at the March numbers there will DEFINATLY be a video on those.
Hi, firstly a great video! ireland has a few things to learn from this example! could you please tell me what song that is on the video.its really caught my attention.
thanks
Thanks
The song title is “Computer Boss” by “BADADAM”.
Well, the colorful bars and the tempo combined with the music do work quite nice:)
I appreciate the video. However It’s really fast paced and hard to keep up with. (Had to pause it most of the time) Thank you either way!
Many thanks, Zoidode, fascnating statistics, giving the lie to the lying Big Carbon generators, who want to keep selling us mugs their over-priced, over-centralised electricity. Decentralised microgeneration shakes markets, and brings these dinosaurs low! I echo other posters’ point about the speed of play, though; your next version, – to a slower edit, I suggest – will be awesome. Big thanks, again.
This video is a strong proof to the major energy corporations, or let’s say, “nay-sayers against renewables” emphasizing that depletion of fossil fuels is inevitable and transition to clean energy will be an irrevocable process.
This video is propaganda, their is a reason they don’t just simply state solar power production as a perceantage of annual production and that is because they don’t produce much power annually. They spent 100Bn Euro to generate 3% of power on solar, if they spend 3Tn Euro they will be renewable.. A genIV NPP will make over 2000% ROI in germany, more if prices keep increasing. That means a 1Bn plant will make 200Bn profit each year.. Solar power is over 1,000fold less efficient, greenies are dumb
where did you get these datas from?
energie-treff.eu
Das Forum für erneuerbare Energien zum mitdiskutieren !!
Meinungs und Informationsaustausch über den neuesten Stand der Entwiklung !
energie-treff.eu
Ignore the moron, he’s some kind of libertarian nationalist nutcase.
I invent the Future of Solar Light technology! There is nothing worldwide even come close to my Products! It saved 80%-90% of Material and Costs! It swims to, also can used to grow up Foot for Aquaculture! Fully Waterproof, possible Backup from a Week! SEE ALSO THE FIRST SOLAR LED FOOTBALL STADIUM LIGHTS! Have a look on my Chanel, if you like my Products! With my Invent its first Time possible to use Solar technology in Areas where they now Solar technology only from TV.
That is not accurate. A gen IV NPP will make a ROI but in the timespan of 15-20 years. The biggest difference is solar and wind are energy farms, whereas nuclear and fossil fuel are energy factories and much much higher efficiencies with excess of 90% uptime. Solar and wind would be lucky to push 30%.
So what do you do on a cloudy day when there is no wind? Solar and wind have their place in the energy market, but baseload is not it.
The renewable energy system requires a larger storage component than the conventional “on-demand” system that burns fossil / nuclear energy in a mix of powerplants whenever we need it.
Technologies for storage are available and are in the process of entering the market, as demand for them picks up. The big investments due to the developement of electric vehicles are driving the price down for small storage.
Wind & grid shortages are driving Power-to-Gas technologies.