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Europe's solar power surge hits prices, exposing storage needs (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

first of all solar produces power even on cloudy days, just less.

Oh, much much less. Even bigger problem is that days are short, those panels don't produce anything at all during night.

in any case, Germany has some ermergency plans. the LNG terminals they quickly started building while having russia problems were planned so they can be switched to green hydrogen imports in the future.

Again, relying on somebody else. Plus there is no green hydrogen at that scale anywhere in the world, nor the storage is there - abroad and in Germany.

also it’s normal to trade energy with European neighbours. everyone is trying not to be a burden for their neighbours though. btw this was of great help when Frances rivers ran dry during the last hot summer and Frances nuclear reactors couldn’t operate due to lack of cooling water.

What country would exchange summer time energy for winter time one? If there is a wider problem with energy supply, each country will take care of itself first. But yes, drought it's a problem with older NPPs, new ones are better at cooling AFAIK.

Germany isn’t done switching to 100% renewable yet.

And that's why it was really smart of Germans to close all NPPs yesterday.