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    Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155359

    by ChrisArchitect
  • 12 TWh
    by coffeebeqn
  • It would be nice if that led to lower prices. All the comparisons I could find are showing Germany near the top for electricity price.

    https://energyfactbook.com/world/electricity-prices-by-count...

    by clarionbell
  • Yey, we contribute 432 kWh to that. Northern Germany, small 6.3 kWp system.
    by scary-size
  • Whenever I see news like this one I feel bad for us in Greece... we have so much sun yet we don't utilize it to the maximum we could for generating electricity and our KWh price is one of the most expensive in Europe. It's a pitty the government doesn't invest in solar or encourage households to do so :-(
    by NKosmatos
  • Cool, a quarter of the country is in a "D4 exceptional drought" (1 in 50 years), half of the rest in a 1 in 30 years drought and the rest in good ol' regular drought. But the sun do be bright indeed
    by toasty228
  • Germany has still one of the highest electricity and energy prices among developed nations which tremendously hurts its industrial base. That has to change too unless this cannot really be called a success I think.
    by umpalumpaaa
  • Glass half full, I suppose. Germany is in the grip of an unusual and prolonged drought -- clear skies, intense daytime heat, no rain.

    > https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78gn8zvrx4o

    I'm near Graz, in Austria, where we're also in the middle of a drought and in truth I can't remember a summer as hot as this one...

    by A_D_E_P_T

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