I remember reading a lot about FIT in germany but I havent seen it mentioned in this thread ?
The last 3 years I got to work on micro (or maybe nano?) hydro/solar project up at burnie hut which is run by a german, I mostly did ditch digging/running pipe/building the dam and drank lots of beer very cool place to work
I'm told we have pumps that use cheap USA nuclear power to bring water back into the reservoir, then when it's time to sell we let the water out, then repeat.
I'm reasonably sure that BCH doesn't have pumped hydro, although that it is relatively common in other jurisdictions.
According to Wiki, there aren't even any in Canada (unless they are smaller than 1000MW):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroelectric_power_stations
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Interesting Wiki page that lists all electric generation in BC, sorted by fuel source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generating_stations_in_British_Columbia
I think we sell our hydro power to the USA during their peak demand periods and import their nuclear power during their low demand periods. That's the great thing about hydroelectric, in a matter of minutes generation can be started or shut down. With nuclear that takes months. I'm told we have pumps that use cheap USA nuclear power to bring water back into the reservoir, then when it's time to sell we let the water out, then repeat.
norway, austria an switzerland do the same thing, that's the beauty of europe, most power networks are connected
I remember reading a lot about FIT in germany but I havent seen it mentioned in this thread ?
The last 3 years I got to work on micro (or maybe nano?) hydro/solar project up at burnie hut which is run by a german, I mostly did ditch digging/running pipe/building the dam and drank lots of beer very cool place to work
fit?
oh that, it's called EEG in germany, i wrote about it further up
Most likeley cogen, biomass, wind, solar. A gas plant or two. A little purchased from out of province (Alberta), which is mostly coal generation.
We're actually less than fifty percent now with coal at 5700 megawatts out of 14000 megawatts, with more gas generation and all coal plants slowly being phased out
looks like the renewables will be our main power source before brown coal this year:
the first of the german energy dinosaurs about to split up into 2 companys:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/01/eon-splits-energy-renewables
the other 2 will follow up probably
Big Oil here is making Germany a poster child for the evil and chaos of moving away from oil and (Russian!) gas and makes a big deal about Germany becoming reliant on "dirty brown coal". I gather coal is relatively clean if it is burned in modern, high-efficiency furnaces and the effluent is scrubbed of most of the CO2. True or not? Anyone remember acid rain? Its scary how the climate change crowd are now re-writing history and claiming that acid rain was (yet another) "hoax" perpetrated by Greens.
live energy production numbers:
[http://www.agora-energiewende.org/service/recent-electricity-data/?tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[initialGraph]=matrix[HTML_REMOVED]tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[controller]=Graph](http://www.agora-energiewende.org/service/recent-electricity-data/?tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[initialGraph]=matrix&tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[controller]=Graph)
this chart is the interesting bit:
[http://www.agora-energiewende.org/service/recent-electricity-data/?tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[initialGraph]=powerImportExport[HTML_REMOVED]tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[controller]=Graph](http://www.agora-energiewende.org/service/recent-electricity-data/?tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[initialGraph]=powerImportExport&tx_agoragraphs_agoragraphs[controller]=Graph)
over 10gw of exported power in the darkest month, no energy shortage in sight ;)
renewables overtook as leading power source this year, now with 25,8% in front of brown coal (25,6%)
We're actually less than fifty percent now with coal at 5700 megawatts out of 14000 megawatts, with more gas generation and all coal plants slowly being phased out
My understanding is that this is because of low natural gas prices. Coal fired plants can be converted to natural gas plants relatively cheaply, so production is shifting to the lowest cost fuel.
Is that correct?
That's the problem with cities, they're refuges for the weak, the fish that didn't evolve.
I don't want to google this - sounds like a thing that NSMB will be better at.
today's solar eclipse was the first real stress test for the german power network:
https://twitter.com/jonogifford/status/578869856914780161/photo/1
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