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A dded by Andres Loubriel on June 20, 201 4.
Saved under Environment, Technology
Tags: Germany

At the start of June, Germany produced 50 percent of its electricity needs from solar
power: a new world record. Tobias Rothacher, expert of renewable energies at
Germanys Trade and Invest, stated that what his country has done with solar power
is a testament to what the renewable resource can accomplish in modern societies.
Fraunhofer ISE research institute revealed that solar panels in the eastern European
country generated a record breaking 23.1 GW of electricity in one hour on June 6th.
On June 9th, a national holiday, solar energy production peaked at 24.24 GW,
which equalled approximately 50.6 percent of the electricity demand.
That week was unusually hot with highs of 37 C, Rothacher attributed the warm
weather and the holiday as major contributors to reaching the new record. He did
state that he is confident that they will be able to break a new record every few
months now: saying that his company is installing more and more photovoltaic solar
panels.
According to Rothacher, the critical component for the high solar energy production
is the encouragement to the public of Germany to install solar panels on their homes
as opposed to the construction of giant solar farms. Rothacher said 90 percent of the

solar panels in the country are on individuals rooftops. He said that solar power
production increased by 34 percent in the first five months of the year and he
believes that the warm weather is responsible for this.
The new record of the large amounts of solar energy being produced in Germany, 50
percent of the demand, demonstrates that the energy companies will need to develop
improved storage capacity. Rothacher said that 1.4 million photovoltaic systems are
generating a surplus of energy, especially on sunny days around midday. He
describes that with every new solar system that is installed, the need for electricity
storage solutions increases.
The new record of 50 percent of Germanys energy demand being produced by solar
means that 74 percent of all the energy produced in the country comes from
renewable resources; wind power being a close second. During the record breaking
afternoon, energy prices dipped into the negative for a period of time.
Observers say that the renewable energy utilization will only increase as Germany
continues its Energiewende, or energy transformation, which aims to power the
entire country by renewable resources by 2050. Bernard Chabot, a renewable energy
consultant based in France, said that Germany has proven that there are no
excuses for any country to not, at the very least, achieve 20 percent energy
production on renewable resources.
A recent analysis by the consulting firm Eclareon discovered that solar power in
Germany has achieved grid parity. Which means that once all the costs are
accounted for, the price of commercial solar is equal to retail electricity rates. Wind
power also reached record breaking output levels last year, producing 25.2 GW and
accounting for 39 percent of the electricity demand in a single day in December.
The record breaking solar energy production is also fueled by policies that
incentivizing clean energy. The German government pays renewable energy
producers a predetermined amount for the electricity they generate under long-term
contracts.
By Andres Loubriel
Sources:
TheLocal
Forbes
ClimateProgress

3 Responses to 50 Percent of the Energy Produced in Germany Is

Solar: New Record
EnergyEf
August 4, 2014 at 11:12 pm
Tudor, there is nothing to disbelieve here. Read the post carefully. It says that
solar was responsible for 50% production of Germanys energy needs during a
short period of time, whether a couple of hours, or over a few hot days in
June. It does not say that solar produced 50% of the energy needs over an
entire year. In fact, if you look at numbers online, solar produced 7% of
electricity (not all energy) needs for germany in the first half of 2014, while
clean power accounted for 21%.
The above post just proves that Germanys desire to run on 100% renewables
by 2050 is very much achievable. In all of this energy efficiency will also play a
big role as the demand side is reduced or controlled by producing more and
more efficient appliances, while the supply side will grow with renewables.
We are also trying to create more awareness for energy efficiency here in
Pakistan. We have created a database to allow Pakistani consumers to

compare appliances by their power consumption, so that they can make more
well-informed energy decisions.
http://www.energyefficiencydatabase.com

Tudor Barnard
June 26, 2014 at 11:35 am
Give me proper references. I dont believe a word of this so far. Unfortunately.
Which is the eastern European country mentioned in connection with
Frauenhofer??

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