("Energy Transition!!")
Germany is currently involved in a government ran program called "Energiewende".
This program is based off of the idea that Germany can reduce it's greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95% and hit a target of a 60% share for renewable energy sources by the year 2050.
-This program will be mainly based off of wind and solar energy captured around the country.
- A success from Energiewende so far is that renewable sources account for nearly 1/3rd of electricity consumed in Germany in 2015.
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| http://euanmearns.com/an-update-on-the-energiewende/ Energiewende |
After recent accidents among Nuclear Reactors and facilities, Germany has decided to take the steps and measures to actually shut down and halt the processes of Nuclear Energy; although not every plant has been ordered to halt processes.
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| http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/climate-change/germany-renewable-energy-revolution-text Wind Turbines surrounding coal-fired power plant near Garzweiler in western Germany |
Germany is working on slashing renewable energy subsidies and replacing them with an auction/quota system.
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| https://thinkprogress.org/germany-sets-new-record-generating-74-percent-of-power-needs-from-renewable-energy-6ca91febc44e#.w7bvb4fu6 This chart shows the increase in Germany's renewable electricity production from the years 1990-2013. |
Germany has also incorporated the use of wind energy as a source of renewable energy, "clean energy", through the wind turbines which Germany has sprawled out over their many fields and flat landscapes in the Western territories.
This past May 15, 2016, Germany's solar and wind power peaked allowing renewable's to supply 45.5 gigawatts as demand was 45.8 gigawatts, according to provisional data by Agora Energiewende.
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| This chart shows Germany's peak power supply by the hour, May 15-May16 2016 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/germany-just-got-almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy |
On the otherside...
Public opposition has posed the only delay; there has been delays to the construction of the power lines needed to distribute Germany's renewable's efficiently, and also there has been a lack of investment in the renewable's industry lowering the levels insufficiently to build enough new capacity to meet Germany's 2020 emissions reduction target.
Works Cited:
- https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/green-energy-bust-in-germany
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601514/germany-runs-up-against-the-limits-of-renewables/
- http://www.sciencealert.com/last-sunday-95-percent-of-germany-s-energy-was-provided-by-renewables
- http://energytransition.de/2016/05/germany-nearly-reached-100-percent-renewable-power-on-sunday/
- http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/climate-change/germany-renewable-energy-revolution-text
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/germany-just-got-almost-all-of-its-power-from-renewable-energy
- http://euanmearns.com/an-update-on-the-energiewende/
