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Originally Posted by sendler
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.
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On at least one occasion,wind and solar provided 75% of Germany's electrical power load.If they continue to build out renewables,given the same conditions,wind and power could provide 100%.