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Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July (ieefa.org)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July::Germany connected solar systems with a combined capacity of almost 1.2 GW to the power grid in July, hitting a new monthly record and bringing the total solar capacity in operation to 75.1 GW

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here in the neighbor country of Austria, the solar growth is limited by the installation capacity currently. There are backlogs of two years for nearly all installation companies, as far as I've heard. Prices are also crazy high due to this.

[โ€“] schroedingershat 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like exceedingly poor planning. A team of 3 can install a 7-10kW residential system in a day, or about 60kW/person-month. Or a 1MW utility system in a couple of weeks. This is 1000-20,000 workers that could have been trained any time since 2010 when it was obvious this was coming. Depending on utility/residential split or 0.3-6% of Austria's unemployed population for 10x the solar installs Germany is making per capita.