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Originally Posted by JSH
True, I was talking about electricity not total energy consumed within the country. The topic is electricity. The fact that roughly 1/3 of the energy used in Germany is oil used for transportation is interesting but not on topic.
Also primary energy consumption = energy produced + energy imported - energy exported. Germany is a net exporter of electricity so that skews their primary energy consumption toward fossil fuels.
Also where are you getting that only 21% of their primary energy consumption is electricity?
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The topic is coal POWER. Not coal electricity. Any of these topics needs to be primary energy. There are way too many feel good articles written about how we are replacing xx percentage of ELECTRICITY (and calling it POWER or ENERGY) with rebuildables, but on the world average, and in Germany, electricity is only is only about 20% of primary energy. The other figures I quoted are right from the charts. only 22.4% of Germany's electricity is solar and wind. And only 4.1% of primary energy is solar and wind.