What a way to phrase the headline. We hopefully won’t have any nuclear winters!
Oh great. If we now also replicate all the Nazi cesspool comments then we feel just like /r/europe.
On an annual basis, the roughly 8.1 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear capacity closed this year has been more than offset by increases in generation capacity from solar and wind sites, data from think tank Ember shows.
Another circlejerk article for Europe with a hypothetical scenario as an opinion piece just to get people angry. Seems weird that something like this is coming from Reuters - I thought they did mostly matter of fact reporting for things that happened and not stuff like this
It’s an article with listed facts, graphs, and data you fucking dullard, just read the damn article.
It says “Commentary” right on top. That means it is a comment and not an analysis. So maybe just read the damn commentary, before starting to insult people.
Wtf difference does that make?! Do you think the facts and sources are nullified since it’s labeled a commentary?
The facts are basicly everything that happend in the past, as that can be measured. Everything about the future is just a comment from the author. It is not a study or a model, but just a comment from some reporter at Reuters.
So if you actually care for the facts, it is that since Germany stopped its nuclear power plants Germany is producing less fossil fuel electricity. That graph comes straight from the Reuters piece. The question is if it continues that way and that is still open.
And the Reuters article says it most likely won’t and will be substituted with fossil fuel! And by going by that argumentation, I’m surprised you’re not suggesting climate change is just speculation since it’s all based on models and predictions
Again, can you read?
It is not a study or a model, but just a comment from some reporter at Reuters.
The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.
no u
However, with generation from solar - Germany’s second largest source of clean electricity behind wind - set to plunge this winter due to reduced daylight, Germany’s total clean power generation looks set to decline just as energy consumption levels rise from higher demand for heating.
There’s a big push in Germany to install heat pumps. If people doing that are getting dual air conditioner/heater systems installed, it may be that it’ll increase summer demand for electricity, and that’ll mitigate some of that.
As things stand, Europe’s peak electricity demand is during winter, due to electricity-powered heating.
In the US, peak electricity demand is during summer, due to air conditioning.
What you’d ideally like is, if your generation is non-dispatchable, for demand to more-or-less track when power is available. In general, solar is going to tend to be generating at the right times if your peak load is from air conditioning, and the wrong times if your peak load is from heating.
European adoption of air conditioning is increasing.
In Italy, sales of air conditioning units grew from 865,000 a year in 2012 to 1.92 million in 2022, according to the industry association Assoclima. These were mostly for business and not residential use, with growth reported in the first quarter of this year.
Most are split heat air pump systems, that can heat spaces in the winter, which Assoclima says can reduce gas consumption as prices spike during the war in Ukraine. That dual-use attracts consumers.
What I don’t know is what the total impact will be.
Of course it fucking will and us Swedes ends up short-ended to pick up the slack of a nation making uneducated child-like decisions that we didn’t even get to vote on or even have as much as a say in!
It’s Nordstream all over again, thank you very fucking much!
Thankfully, Finland recently completed a new nuclear power station that will help us both this coming winter.
You mean besides:
- German fossil fuel electricity production is down a lot compared to the same period last year
- Germany exported a lot of electricity to France last winter, which will likely not be the case this winter
- German electricity consumption is down a lot
All of that perfectly well explained in the commentary even with lovely graphs, but well lets first hate on Germany and ignore the facts. Makes life so much easier right?
The article (as stated in the fucking title) is about how Germany will most likely need to substitute their energy grid with imports and coal power…
We always need to substitute our energy grid with coal power … it’s just more in the winter.
No not really lol. They speculate that maybe they may need to burn more coal this winter.
While being very clear about how speculative the whole commentary is, as it largely depends on how much wind and solar will offset.
Of course, it’s speculation, we cannot tell the future. But looking at the graphs provided, Germany has steadily generated leas and less power in 2023. What kind of miracle are you hoping for this winter? 100 % sun hours with steady winds?!
Winds will pick up in winter and sun will go down. We’ll see i guess. Don’t know why everyone in this thread is so fucking angry
Because it affects many of us on such a personal level. Middle-class households in Sweden are struggling financially, much because of the energy prices.
The environmental changes caused by burning fossile fuel are being felt, now more than ever before.
And it fucking stings the eyes when you hear uneducated fools talk about how bad nuclear power is when it really would help us eleviate both these issues.
Ig you haven’t read up on some “long term storage” facilities already leaking and failing after mere decades due to cut corners?
https://ecology.wa.gov/Waste-Toxics/Nuclear-waste/Hanford-cleanup/Leaking-tanks
Also nuclear is not something we (germany) could just get back on short term.
Nuclear isnt at all the silver bullet yall make it out to be
