energy-charts.info provides a great overview over electricity generation by sector, renewable share and a lot of other data on the German electricity network. They also provide estimates for the next few hours and scenarios how the electricity network could look like in a few decades.

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    This had me scratching my head for a minute, wondering why there was so much whitespace between the Load curve and the total energy generated. I can’t imagine Germany having nightly rolling blackouts to accommodate a shortfall in generated energy. Then I realized several categories in the legend that are not shown on the chart.

    • Oliver@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Europe is a fucking big electricity grid. Reaching from (I heard) Marocco through whole of Europe until Turkey. Electricity is all the time imported and exported between the countries.

      Here a picture from the current situation. (The color represents the CO2 emissions per kWh produced. As you can see: Poland loves coal.)