Yet this "myth" is what has lead to countries with heavy amounts of green baseloads being able to decarbonize and those without are still struggling.
The failure of the Germany energiewende is a great example, Californias struggle is another.
The failure of the Germany energiewende is a great example, Californias struggle is another.
>The promise was sweet: Germany's transition towards a low-carbon society would cost the average household no more than €1 ($1.1) per month, "the price of a scoop of ice cream," as Jürgen Trittin, then minister for the environment, put it in 2004.
So please don't try to rewrite the history. It was supposed to be cheap.
Except it's not as big of a failure as many try to claim. It's meeting huge challenges, for sure. But part of the problem has little to do with inherent flaws of renewables.. like the politics around building more grid transmission lines from north to south (if you hold this against renewables you have to hold political resistance against nuclear too).
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> (Montel) The German government plans to allow a market return 10.4 GW of hard coal, lignite and oil-fired reserve capacity if a gas supply crunch threatens power supply security, Montel learned on Tuesday.
> The new rules are designed to use as little gas as possible in an emergency situation by replacing the generation from gas-fired power plants, a government document seen by Montel showed.
They also plan to change some laws to speed up transition to renewable energies: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_uebe...
You can argue that renewable are not deployed fast enough in germany, and there are good arguments for that, but the article isn't about that.
But maybe there's a catch about re-commissioning coal massively and still planing to reduce it on the long term.
California has AFAIK a major grid-related problem: bad maintenance, not enogh interconnections with neighboring states... In which way renewable energy creates a problem there?