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Thursday
Mar222012

German solar industry: "A mission too well accomplished"

The traditional energy industry in Germany is stressing about solar power. According to Clean Technica:

On this sunny day in Germany [Tuesday, March 20], PV solar will once again provide about 8% of the total German electricity demand of the day. As I write this, PV solar generates about 16 GW of electricity, approximately 25% of the entire German electricity demand at noon. Hard coal & gas generate less than 10 GW combined….

Solar power is working for Germany and the traditional energy industries know it:

Since those coal, gas, oil and uranium trading corporations (E.On, RWE, BASF, Vattenfall, RAG…) are quite influential and powerful, they are working very hard to kill solar now, before it kills them….

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