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Most of The World Could Be 100% Powered With Renewables by 2050

[h=2]German Wind Industry In A Coma: Tenders For Wind Energy Projects “Have Fallen To New, All-Time Low”[/h]By P Gosselin on 11. September 2019
Tenders for new wind energy projects in Germany “have fallen to a new, all-time low”, the online IWR reports here.
After the installation of thousands of megawatts of German wind power capacity led to instability in the power grid, exploding electricity prices and the destruction of natural landscapes and biotopes, protests against wind projects ratcheted up to the point where the government was forced to scale back on subsidies two years ago. The result: investments in wind parks, once seen as the future of Germany’s energy supply, have since collapsed. . . .
 
40 percent of German's electricity mix came from renewables last year.

Coal is now in Germany’s rear-view mirror. In 2018, 40% of the country’s electricity mix came from wind, solar, biomass and hydroelectric sources. That’s up 4.3 percentage points over 2017, and topped coal generation (38% of the total) for the first time, according to the Fraunhofer research group. The bulk of the clean power came from onshore and offshore wind capacity (20.4% of total output) and solar (8.4% of total output).

Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is steadily retiring its coal and nuclear power plants as it seeks to cut carbon emissions over the coming decades. The country will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% next year, and by 95% in 2050, compared to 1990 levels.

Renewables topped coal in Germany for first time in 2018 — Quartz

There you also for example have this road map for a global transition away from fossil fuels.

Exponential Climate Action Roadmap | Report
 
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Both companies and governments are stepping up for the urgent transition away from fossil fuels.

Germany has unveiled a multi billion package to combat climate change.

"Germany unveiled a 54 billion euros ($60 billion) package over the next four years to speed up the country's transition to renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions.

As tens of thousands took to the streets of Berlin and other major cities around the world to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis, Germany's coalition government unveiled a new package of policies that could also help shore up Europe's biggest economy."

Germany unveils $60 billion climate crisis plan - CNN

While Google will make a multi billion investment in renewable energy.

On Thursday, Google announced its plan to make “the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy in history.” This announcebiment precedes a day of walkouts by tech employees, including those from Google, who are participating in the Global Climate Strike. The tech workers are demanding their employers take stronger actions to combat climate change.

Google’s purchase includes a 1,600-megawatt package of wind and solar agreements and 18 new energy deals, increasing the company’s agreements by 40 percent, according to Google. More than $2 billion will go to building out new infrastructure across the United States, Europe, and Chile as well. This purchase is “equivalent to the capacity of a million solar rooftops,” Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post Thursday.

He continued, “In all, our renewable energy fleet now stands at 52 projects, driving more than $7 billion in new construction and thousands of related jobs.”

Google makes ‘biggest corporate purchase’ of renewable energy - The Verge
 
Jack Hays said:
[h=2]German Wind Industry In A Coma: Tenders For Wind Energy Projects “Have Fallen To New, All-Time Low”[/h]By P Gosselin on 11. September 2019
Tenders for new wind energy projects in Germany “have fallen to a new, all-time low”, the online IWR reports here.
After the installation of thousands of megawatts of German wind power capacity led to instability in the power grid, exploding electricity prices and the destruction of natural landscapes and biotopes, protests against wind projects ratcheted up to the point where the government was forced to scale back on subsidies two years ago. The result: investments in wind parks, once seen as the future of Germany’s energy supply, have since collapsed. . . .
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The beginning of the end.
 
Banks representing a third of the global industry, adopted principles to fight climate change.

'“These principles mean banks have to consider the impact of their loans on society – not just on their portfolio,” Simone Dettling, banking team lead for the Geneva-based United Nations Environment Finance Initiative, told Reuters.

Under pressure from investors, regulators and climate activists, some big banks have acknowledged the role lenders will need to play in a rapid transition to a low-carbon economy.

Financing for oil, gas and coal projects has come under particular scrutiny as climate scientists step up calls to change the global economy’s deep reliance on fossil-fuels to avert disastrous warming.'

Banks worth $47 trillion adopt new U.N.-backed climate principles - Reuters
 
Increasing support for renewable energy among Americans.

"A new Insider poll found that a large majority of Americans strongly favor cleaner sources of energy over fossil fuels — and it's a belief that transcends party lines.

The data shows that both self-identified Democrats and Republicans support the idea of the nation transitioning toward renewable sources of energy. Solar and wind power were the top two preferred alternative energy sources among both groups of respondents, while coal was ranked dead last."

Americans really want the US to adopt renewable energy sources - Business Insider

There you also are seeing massive investment in renewable energy and also in for example electric cars all across the world.

Australian billionaire to back $14 billion solar power supply to Singapore: AFR - Reuters

Volkswagen electric car plans pick up pace with battery deal and model launches - CNN
 
TomFitz said:
Electric trains have existed since the 1880’s.

If you like your electric tools, take a walk down the lawn and garden aisle and look at the electric weed walkers, chain saws, and blowers. Recall that they were all powered by internal combustion engines until very recently. Now, only about half of them are, and all of them will be electric in a few years.

That’s a preview of what’s going to happen to cars. The process has already begun. Every single major world auto company has an electric product or program.

As for storage, lithium ion batteries are cheap enough to provide peak storage from renewable. The Hornsdale plant Tesla built in Austrialia proved the business model, and will pay for itself in three years. Not since the days of Thomas Edison’s Pearl Street station has an investment in the electric power industry produced a three year payback. Now similar facilities are being built or planned on every continent.

The trickle is about to become a flood.
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Teslas are limited to a top speed of 150 mph by their computer. A Tesla was taken to the 14 mile long VW test track in German to see how well the 4400 pound car did in handling on the track running wide open - with 150 being on the slow side for that track.

There was only ONE problem. At full power the Tesla couldn't make it the whole 14 minutes - and that without AC, heat or stereo on. When driving, a Tesla has to be babied.

To deal with this, Tesla had to cheat and next brought a specially modified non-production Telsa because there also is the problem that the production cars do not have sufficient cooling for the batteries for protracted top speed driving. So drive a Tesla too fast for more than a few miles and either the computer shuts you down, you break down, or if those go-slow safeguards failed the batteries blow up and kill you.

Teslas are the DIRTIEST of all cars, since they are primarily powered by coal and natural gas. Because there are nearly a dozen energy conversions before the electric power reaches the roadway, Teslas usage produces vastly more co2 than would be a 100 year old Stanley Steamer with a coal fired boiler.
 
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Increasing support for renewable energy among Americans.

"A new Insider poll found that a large majority of Americans strongly favor cleaner sources of energy over fossil fuels — and it's a belief that transcends party lines.

The data shows that both self-identified Democrats and Republicans support the idea of the nation transitioning toward renewable sources of energy. Solar and wind power were the top two preferred alternative energy sources among both groups of respondents, while coal was ranked dead last."

Americans really want the US to adopt renewable energy sources - Business Insider

There you also are seeing massive investment in renewable energy and also in for example electric cars all across the world.

Australian billionaire to back $14 billion solar power supply to Singapore: AFR - Reuters

Volkswagen electric car plans pick up pace with battery deal and model launches - CNN
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Germany required Tesla to product parts for German car makers. In return German car makers specifically have targeted Tesla as their primary electric car competitor. Musk was an idiot to put manufacturing in German or try to break into the German car market. Most countries, unlike the USA usually, go to great lengths to protect their jobs and companies and to keep their factories in their own countries.
 
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And when you keep peddling the propaganda earlier and earlier in schools, it’s no surprise to see larger public support. That was the whole point to begin with.
 
Aberration said:
And when you keep peddling the propaganda earlier and earlier in schools, it’s no surprise to see larger public support. That was the whole point to begin with.
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The danger, is to process to mold minds to accept propaganda, is almost the opposite
of the process to teach critical thinking skills!
 
[h=2]Price Shock! German Consumer Electricity Rates Climb To “New Record High”, Reaching A Whopping 30.85 Cents/Kwh![/h]By P Gosselin on 9. October 2019

More pain for consumers. Electricity prices in Germany climb to a new high, reaching 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour. Experts warn transition to green energies may lead to shortages, higher prices.
German online national daily Die Welt here reports on how electricity prices in the country have reached “a new high” and that natural gas prices are high as well.
The German national news daily writes: “Electricity has never been as expensive for private households in Germany as it is this year.”
“Prices have risen to a new high,” Die Welt reports, citing the latest data from German Federal Network Agency.
For the first time, electricity prices for consumers reached 30 cents (euro) per kilowatt-hour, making German electric prices among the highest in the world.

Citing data from the Federal Network Agency, the average price soared to 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour, which works out to be an increase of almost 3.3 percent compared to just a year earlier. Last year the average price for one kilowatt hour was 29.88 cents.
According to Die Welt: “The Federal Network Agency evaluates the data of well over 1000 electricity suppliers.”
Why is electricity so expensive in Germany?
The Federal Network Agency puts the blame on the electricity wholesalers who, according to Die Welt, “pass on increases to the electricity exchange”.
And an end in the rising price spiral remains elusive, experts warn.
“Wholesale prices for electricity could continue to rise,” Die Welt reports. Large power producers such as RWE, warn that future plant closures due to the transition to green energies and the phasing out of the country’s nuclear power plants will “lead to a shortage”.
Die Welt ends its article: “The largest block on the electricity bill, however, are taxes, levies and allocations, which account for more than half of the total price.” One major price driver are the mandatory, exorbitantly high green energy feed-in tariffs that grid operators are forced to pay.
 
Jack Hays said:
[h=2]Price Shock! German Consumer Electricity Rates Climb To “New Record High”, Reaching A Whopping 30.85 Cents/Kwh![/h]By P Gosselin on 9. October 2019

More pain for consumers. Electricity prices in Germany climb to a new high, reaching 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour. Experts warn transition to green energies may lead to shortages, higher prices.
German online national daily Die Welt here reports on how electricity prices in the country have reached “a new high” and that natural gas prices are high as well.
The German national news daily writes: “Electricity has never been as expensive for private households in Germany as it is this year.”
“Prices have risen to a new high,” Die Welt reports, citing the latest data from German Federal Network Agency.
For the first time, electricity prices for consumers reached 30 cents (euro) per kilowatt-hour, making German electric prices among the highest in the world.

Citing data from the Federal Network Agency, the average price soared to 30.85 cents (euro) per kilowatt hour, which works out to be an increase of almost 3.3 percent compared to just a year earlier. Last year the average price for one kilowatt hour was 29.88 cents.
According to Die Welt: “The Federal Network Agency evaluates the data of well over 1000 electricity suppliers.”
Why is electricity so expensive in Germany?
The Federal Network Agency puts the blame on the electricity wholesalers who, according to Die Welt, “pass on increases to the electricity exchange”.
And an end in the rising price spiral remains elusive, experts warn.
“Wholesale prices for electricity could continue to rise,” Die Welt reports. Large power producers such as RWE, warn that future plant closures due to the transition to green energies and the phasing out of the country’s nuclear power plants will “lead to a shortage”.
Die Welt ends its article: “The largest block on the electricity bill, however, are taxes, levies and allocations, which account for more than half of the total price.” One major price driver are the mandatory, exorbitantly high green energy feed-in tariffs that grid operators are forced to pay.
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Are you going to spam every climate change thread with this same post?

Germany used price-supporting mechanisms to guarantee renewable electric generators a fixed future price. This is working well. In some months of 2019, Germany generated more than 50% of it's power from renewables - more than double (almost triple) the United States.

Not only that, but the fees for renewables haven't gone up much at all, since 2014. It's primarily the taxes and grid fees that have raised the price of their electricity.
 
longview said:
The danger, is to process to mold minds to accept propaganda, is almost the opposite
of the process to teach critical thinking skills!
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LOZl.

Sez the guy who has no problem with WUWT but thinks the NAS is completely wrong.
 
Media_Truth said:
Are you going to spam every climate change thread with this same post?

Germany used price-supporting mechanisms to guarantee renewable electric generators a fixed future price. This is working well. In some months of 2019, Germany generated more than 50% of it's power from renewables - more than double (almost triple) the United States.

Not only that, but the fees for renewables haven't gone up much at all, since 2014. It's primarily the taxes and grid fees that have raised the price of their electricity.
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Only two.

Do you deny the price increase?
 
Jack Hays said:
Only two.

Do you deny the price increase?
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If we go with the statement that "Germany generated more than 50% of it's power from renewables"
and combine that with German Feed in tariffs,
New energy regulation in Germany details 2019 changes for PV industry – pv magazine International
As of January 1, 2019: 10.36 cents per kWh
As of February 1, 2019: 9.87 cents per kWh
As of March 1, 2019: 9.39 cents per kWh
As of April 1, 2019: 8.90 cents per kWh
it is no small wonder that retail prices are increasing.
If 50% of the power generated has 8 or 9 cents added to the cost of goods sold,
someone has to cover that cost, (someone means the customer)!
 
Into the Night said:
Consensus is not used in science. The APS is not science. No society, academy, university, government agency, or any scientist or group of scientists is science. Science isn't even people at all.

Science is a set of falsifiable theories.
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So what science do you know it is not agreed to by the consensus of the expert in that field? why is this particular field the only one that seems to be an exception for you?
 
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[h=1]Sorry Greta, India needs more coal to power growth[/h][FONT=&quot]From The Times of India October 13, 2019, 2:00 am IST SA Aiyar in Swaminomics | India | TOI Greta Thunberg, the 16-year old Swedish girl who lectured the United Nations on climate change, is being touted as a possible Nobel Prize winner. She believes she and her white Swedish teenage friends have to save…
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Maybe India does need more coal to power growth. Does that make her wrong to be concerned about the consequences?
 
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Maybe India does need more coal to power growth. Does that make her wrong to be concerned about the consequences?
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Yes, it makes her wrong. Decisions about power generation in India are the business of Indians, not Swedes.
 
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