Germany Breaks Record: 85% of Energy Comes From Renewables Last Weekend

[FBaggins]

10. So you missed the title of the piece that you posted?

Nowhere in the article does it correctly state that it was for a couple hours on a holiday weekend with low demand (they regularly top 80GWs). It falsely leaves the reader with the impression that Germany is close to meeting their electricity generation needs with renewables alone... when little could be further from the truth.

As to whether it is a record or not, I don't know or particularly care.

That's a shame... since it's the only part of the story with any value.

Innumerable assertions of limits on the amount of renewables a grid can handle made by antirenewable nuclear boosters on this forum were demonstrated to be false.

That's either dead wrong or an awful strawman... possibly both.You can't provide evidence (let alone proof) that a grid can handle more than a given percentage of renewables so long as you retain baseload generation capacity in excess of peak demand. You could easily get much larger percentages of total generation from renewables if you're stupid enough to pay for duplicate infrastructure that sits idle while the variable renewables do their thing.