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For those of you that want to see the data behind this story: https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&period=annual&year=all https://www.ener

For those of you that want to see the data behind this story: https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&period=annual&year=all https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p... I think the history is one of a failed economic subsidy program that accidentally accelerated the PV-industry by a few years. There were several growing PV manufacturers in germany up to around 2011/2012. In that timeframe the manufacturers were all busy building new factories, but the government noticed that the subsidy program became large enough to be expensive and suddenly severely cut the subsidies. None of the manufacturers survived that, the remains were sold to the chinese.

jplayer01 7y ago
Yeah, the Energiewende is an absolute farce. The government exited nuclear while utterly gutting the German PV industry. It's mind-boggling.
cygx 7y ago
Some relevant numbers (TWh) from that graphic: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal + Oil 253 205 Gas 40 44 Nuclear 156 72
- jhayward 7y ago
  So, they've successfully got rid of about 50% of nuclear and 20% of coal by adding a very small amount of gas generation. Presumably the rest is coming from renewables. Sounds like a pretty good progress report.
  - cygx 7y ago
    Presumably the rest is coming from renewables. No reason not to complete the picture, I guess: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal+Oil 253 205 Nuclear 156 72 Gas 40 44 Biomass 4 45 Wind+Solar+Hydro 39 177 Other 10 3