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5. At noon EST US 01/01/22, Germany's wind turbines are at 2.61%...
Mon Jan 10, 2022, 01:20 PM
Jan 2022

...of capacity, are are actually produng less electricity than Germany's three remaining nuclear plants.

Coal is producing the largest share, 41.05% of it's electricity, followed by gas at 19.65%.

The German carbon intensity is 514g CO2/kWh. France, which is at an unusually high 99g CO2/kWh because the wind isn't blowing there either, is currently exporting electricity to Germany, the equivalent of three nuclear plants output.

France has about 17.2 GW peak of wind junk, but it's operating at 9% of capacity utilization, hence France is burning gas, accounting for 57.39% of its emissions of the dangerous fossil fuel waste CO2.

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