{"id":338489,"date":"2024-08-04T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=338489"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:51:17","slug":"handelsblatt-reports-photovoltaics-causing-problems-electricity-distribution-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=338489","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Handelsblatt\u2019 Reports: Photovoltaics \u201cCausing Problems Electricity Distribution Grids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\u00a0P Gosselin<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photovoltaics are escalating power grid instability in Germany, thus increasing the risk of regional blackouts. Too many cheap, uncontrollable systems from China are flooding the market.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMillions of solar installations will have to be torn down\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hat-tip: Alexander Raue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Germany there are growing fears of power grid blackouts. The reason: The effects that the \u201crapid expansion of photovoltaics\u201d is having on grid stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany countermeasures will not take effect for years,\u201d reports the online business daily Handelsblatt<\/a>. \u201cIn 2023 alone, the number of photovoltaic systems connected to the grid rose by 30 percent to 3.4 million units, the Federal Statistical Office announced on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As more and more small-scale systems get installed, the more unstable power grids are becoming, experts are warning. Because wherever more electricity gets produced than consumed, the grid can collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the worst case, this could mean local power cuts, warns the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU), which brings together many municipal utilities,\u201dreports the Handelsblatt<\/a>. Small, private rooftop systems have gained wide popularity across Germany, The problem however, is their technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe majority of systems cannot currently be switched off automatically if too much electricity is produced in certain phases and regions,\u201d the Handelsblatt adds.  This is leading to grid overloading and instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online news-video publisher Alexander Raue<\/a> also blames the grid instability problem on \u201ccheap solar systems from China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe there\u2019s a well-functioning technology available -already today- but it\u2019s considerably more expensive. And because the market is being flooded by millions of cheap products from China, thrifty German consumers are snatching up the Chinese junk and are thus putting the German power grid in jeopardy,\u201d says Raue. All of this is being promoted by Germans Economics Minister, Robert Habeck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe electricity grid operators have now issued an explosive blackout warning about solar power! Millions of solar installations will have to be torn down, as Habeck\u2019s favorite project, of all things, means the collapse of Germany!\u201d Raue comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photovoltaics are escalating power grid instability in Germany, thus increasing the risk of regional blackouts. Too many cheap, uncontrollable systems from China are flooding the market. <\/p>\n

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