Wolf-Peter Schill 1/ 馃馃惈 When the camel meets the duck: how storage patterns have changed in 馃嚛馃嚜 Cool new illustration on the #OpenEnergyTracker: average daily operations of pumped hydro storage in Germany since 2015. A little 馃У 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍
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Wolf-Peter Schill Wolf-Peter Schill 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 In case you missed it (as I did), here is a neat energy flow chart for Germany recently published by AG Energiebilanzen. Still a long way to go to end the use fossil fuels, especially in the transport sector. ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/u...
Wolf-Peter Schill 1/馃殫馃攲馃嚛馃嚜 Update on electric cars in Germany based on brand new #KBA data 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 鈻讹笍 18.8% of car registrations in April 2025 were pure battery-electric (BEV) 鈻讹笍 This was the highest April BEV market share ever 鈻讹笍 Compared to the terrible year 2024, it looks like BEV are back on a solid growth path
Wolf-Peter Schill 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 1/ A little good news for a change: CO2 emissions of the German power sector have been at a record low in 2024, according to recently released data by the @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social . A few observations in a brief 馃У
Wolf-Peter Schill Meet the German duck curve 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍
Wolf-Peter Schill 1/ 馃殫馃攲 End-of-year update on electric cars in Germany, based on brand-new #KBA data and graphs from the #OpenEnergyTracker. 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 First, the quick facts: 鈻讹笍 In December 2024, the share of purely battery-electric vehicles (BEV) among newly registered cars was 14.9%.
Wolf-Peter Schill 1/ How German electricity generation, consumption and imports changed 2024 vs. 2023 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 Key takeaways: 鈻讹笍 Hard coal and lignite declined substantially and are now on a record low 鈻讹笍 Nuclear power phased out completely in 2024
Wolf-Peter Schill 1/ German energy transition fact #3 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 How is the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEV) going? 馃攱馃殫 Here is some brand new KBA data 馃斀 鈻讹笍 Share of BEV in new car registrations in December 2023: 22.6% (~55,000 cars) 鈻讹笍 BEV share in overall 2023: 18.4% (~524,000 cars) 鈻讹笍 Plus some plug-in hybrids
Wolf-Peter Schill 1/ German energy transition fact #2 馃嚛馃嚜馃攲鈫╋笍 Yesterday's fact #1 was on how Germany generated its electricity in 2023. Today's fact #2 is about how German (gross) electricity generation and demand changed between 2022 vs. 2023 Some key points in a mini 馃У馃斀