Last year, Germany’s power-grid outages averaged 12.7 minutes last year, a 41% decline from 2006, despite the usage of renewables having grown to comprise a third of the country’s electricity generation, demonstrating that greater use of renewables doesn't destabilise the grid, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. He said some state governments have set renewable energy targets “that are extremely aggressive, extremely unrealistic, and have paid little or no attention to energy security.” The German government has been pushing for more renewable energy in recent years, and is now planning on building up its own wind farm by 2022, which will be able to generate enough power to meet all
Last year, Germany’s power-grid outages averaged 12.7 minutes last year, a 41% decline from 2006, despite the usage of renewables having grown to comprise a third of the country’s electricity generation, demonstrating that greater use of renewables doesn't destabilise the grid, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The German government has been pushing for more renewable energy in recent years, and is now planning on building up its own wind farm by 2022, which will be able to generate enough power to meet all