By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
There is a useful site for collecting data on the European power sector, called Energodock:
http://energodock.com/germany/electricity-generation
It gives a variety of data by country. I have used it to analyse generation data across Western Europe for last month. (I have ignored Eastern Europe at this stage).
Some observations:
1) Fossil fuels still account for 33%, despite the dominance of nuclear in France (73%), and high renewables share in Germany.
2) Solar is to all intents and purposes irrelevant in winter months, even with some output from Spain.
Total solar capacity for Western Europe is 98GW. Output of 3049 GWh in January equates to just 4% of total capacity.
3) Wind at 16% is very similar to the UK level. About half of the total comes from Germany and the UK.
As in the UK, wind output is extremely intermittent in Germany. Notably, output was very low in both countries for several days around 20th January, running at 38% of the average for the month as a whole.
According to BP, wind power capacity in the UK and Germany amounts to 75.7GW. With output down to 1575 GWh between 19th and 25th Jan, utilisation would have been down to 12%.
5) Nuclear generated 65 TWh during the month. France accounts for 40 TWh of this, and Germany a further 7 TWh.
With Germany already committed to close their nuclear capacity in the next few years, and uncertainty around French policy, it is evident that Western Europe as a whole will remain heavily dependent on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future..
from Climate Change Skeptic Blogs via hj on Inoreader http://bit.ly/2GcenPx
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