Posted on 08/07/2022 6:40:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – The more the sun shines in the southern German town of Aurach, the more likely it is that Jens Husemann's solar panels will be disconnected from the grid -- an exasperating paradox at a time when Germany is navigating an energy supply crisis.
"It's being switched off every day," Husemann told AFP during a recent sunny spell, saying there had been more than 120 days of forced shutdowns so far this year.
Husemann, who runs an energy conversion business near Munich, also owns a sprawling solar power system on the flat roof of a transport company in Aurach, Bavaria.
Grid operator N-Ergie, which is responsible for harvesting electricity from Husemann's panels, admits the situation is less than ideal.
There were 257 days last year when it had to cut off supply from solar panels on parts of the grid.
"We are currently witnessing -- and this is a good thing -- an unprecedented boom in photovoltaic parks," Rainer Kleedoerfer, head of N-Ergie's development department, told AFP.
But while it takes just a couple of years to commission a solar power plant, updating the necessary infrastructure takes between five and 10 years, he said.
"The number of interventions and the amount of curtailed energy have increased continuously in recent years" as a result, according to N-Ergie spokesman Michael Enderlein.
"The likelihood is that grid bottlenecks will actually increase in the coming years," while resolving them will take several more years, Enderlein said.
According to Carsten Koenig, managing director of the German Solar Industry Association, the problem is not unique to solar power and also affects wind energy.
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ya, we didn’t include “heated pool” in our SHTF plan....
Very true...dumbasses they are.
There are immense problems even finding (or building) ONE additional pumped storage site larger than 100 Megawatt net average per day. That single artificial lake in NY downstream of Niagara Falls was fiercely opposed even back in the 1960s for taking land.
Translation : We’re still trying to pull our heads out and stop chasing our tails
We were offered 30 year 2.5% financing for our solar system, but declined it when upon taking a closer look at the terms. First, they required that you pay over to them any tax credit. In other words, you agree to provide them your tax return and pay to them in one lump sum the amount you would have paid in tax but for the credit. Then, the finance company extracted a mult-thousand dollar fee from the installer, which was added to your principal, in addition to the three or four points you agreed to pay on the loan origination. The whole thing was cleverly designed to make the monthly payment equal almost exactly what your savings on you monthly electric bill was expected to be.
“How brilliant is that? Spend three times more capital to get the same net output! But “green” trumps all.”
And Europe is, at most, halfway there and yet their electricity cost are more than TRIPLE the US.
The Sun doesn’t switch off anything. Bad way to start an article.
You have to read the article to discover that N-Ergie disconnects the panels. The panels generate too much electricity and the grid cannot handle the additional load.
Very annoying article. It is written very poorly. I should not have to search in the article for the critical information that answers the questions:
who
what
why.
We run into this just yesterday. Got 12 year old pool pump an motor. Power it all off electrical pv panels. Now I have to replace a failing motor and pump. Laws, I am told, require me to install a variable speed pump at $1400 plus install costs. Govt won’t allow me to put in a 2 hp 240 vac motor/pump combo.
I can replace one part or the other but not the entire system.
Is Big Brother great ?
I haven’t paid one dime for electricity since January began. So I’m as green as it gets and yet I am punished.
More of the same. Why would these traitors do this?https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/08/08/u-s-department-energy-gives-revolutionary-battery-technology-china/
I think of it as a filterable water reserve
How do they know?
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