Thanks for shoutout, any day I make it into the news letter is a great day.
I love the German energy mix forecast for a number of reasons, really cool graphic. Isn't it curious though that while oil and gas go to zero, coal generation remains constant through almost the entirety of the forecast period? I would love to know the reasoning.
Thanks for the long-term support and always thought-provoking feedback! 💚 🥃
I noticed the same thing! I
know Germany has a long and deep coal heritage, I wonder if this was left there to avoid freaking out that segment at the time (like, it was left in the chart for PR reasons), or maybe they didn't trust nuclear fully yet at the time, so figured the prudent thing was to keep a coal bedrock under it? 🤔
And thank you for sticking with the project and putting this out 3 times/week. It's worth more to me than I pay for it.
That's a good point. I didn't know until now that Germany had those kind of coal deposits. Most definitely coal was left in there for political reasons whether they believed it or not.
We see similar behavior here at home in Saskatchewan. Carbon capture projects that appear to be nothing more than attempts to keep old coal plants/mines operating.
Thanks for shoutout, any day I make it into the news letter is a great day.
I love the German energy mix forecast for a number of reasons, really cool graphic. Isn't it curious though that while oil and gas go to zero, coal generation remains constant through almost the entirety of the forecast period? I would love to know the reasoning.
Thanks for the long-term support and always thought-provoking feedback! 💚 🥃
I noticed the same thing! I
know Germany has a long and deep coal heritage, I wonder if this was left there to avoid freaking out that segment at the time (like, it was left in the chart for PR reasons), or maybe they didn't trust nuclear fully yet at the time, so figured the prudent thing was to keep a coal bedrock under it? 🤔
And thank you for sticking with the project and putting this out 3 times/week. It's worth more to me than I pay for it.
That's a good point. I didn't know until now that Germany had those kind of coal deposits. Most definitely coal was left in there for political reasons whether they believed it or not.
We see similar behavior here at home in Saskatchewan. Carbon capture projects that appear to be nothing more than attempts to keep old coal plants/mines operating.
I've been working on it about 7 days a week on it for 2+ years, so you could say it's a passion project!
Yeah, anything where politics is involved is likely to have a committee somewhere looking at electoral blocs of voters and arguing for leaving XYZ in.