The Meteorologists Are Predicting Sunny Weather As A High Pressure Area Settles In Over Germany
Last Wednesday Solar power produce hit 22.7 gigawatts an new high beating the record of 24.2 gigawatts set on June 6,2014.
The next few days and weeks should set even higher results.
They say one gigawatt is equal to the output of one nuclear reactor.
“A solar generation record may impact prices, especially on weekends when demand for electricity is low, less on weekdays,” Hendrik Saemisch, chief executive officer of Next Kraftwerke GmbH, said Wednesday in an interview from Cologne. The company sells power from renewables on the German intraday and balancing markets.
Germany’s planned decade-long, 120 billion-euro ($127 billion) shift to cleaner energy from fossil fuels has made the nation the biggest economy in the world to rely so heavily on renewable power. Unpredictable solar and wind energy can flood the grid, resulting in negative power prices, when generators must pay consumers to take electricity. The risk is higher at weekends, when usage slows as offices and factories shut.
Germany has about 39 gigawatts of installed solar capacity. While installations expanded by more than 22 gigawatts in the three years since 2010, they have slowed to as little as 100 megawatts a month after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government cut subsidies.
Read more about German energy pricing at the original article.
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