{"id":360699,"date":"2025-01-06T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360699"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T09:00:14","slug":"the-german-co2-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=360699","title":{"rendered":"The German CO2 dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From KlimaNachrichten<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0KlimaNachrichten Editor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development of CO2 emissions from electricity production offers an interesting picture in Europe for the year 2024.
First of all, it should be noted that there are apparently different values in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sites such as Electricitymaps work with different figures than, for example, Nowtricity or the Federal Environment Agency.
It still estimates emissions for 2023 in mid-2024, but more recent figures are apparently not available there.
Therefore, the origin is always important, because each of the sources has a different calculation.
However, if values from the same source are used, a coherent picture emerges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On X you can find numbers for 366 days until 28.12.2024. They came from Electricitymaps.
Compared to 14 other countries, Germany is in 13th place, i.e. the third worst value.
Countries like Sweden, France or Norway don’t even have 10% of our emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nowtricity sets the 2024 figures lower. There are 321 g indicated.
According to this, there has been a decrease of 9.32% in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2024, however, the values would still be higher than in 2020.
That was the first Corona year and there was a decline in electricity production compared to the previous year.
According to the figures there, Germany has been moving sideways since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sticking with Nowtricty and 2024,
the month of June was the month with the lowest emissions at 244 g, and November had the highest at 417 g in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This spread shows very well that the so often propagated interplay of sun and wind does not work.
November 2024 showed very clearly that annual totals are of little help when sun and wind fail at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even on windy New Year’s Day 2025, with a share of renewable energies of 85% in Germany, the value is only just under 150 g according to Nowtricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For comparison: France 26 g, Sweden 14 g, Norway 18 g at the same time.
These values come about because of various things.
However, only together is a secured performance.
Even after years of lavish subsidies, Germany is still a long way from such values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The development of CO2 emissions from electricity production offers an interesting picture in Europe for the year 2024.
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