On: Japan Turns to Coal After Closing Nuclear Power Plants

[_19qg]

https://strom-report.de/strom/

Share of electricity production in Germany in 2019:

Coal 19.5% + 9.5%

Gas 10.5%

19.8 + 9.5 + 10.5 = 39.8%

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Interesting. The graphs on that website do not agree with the ones on Wikipedia. For example, for coal in 2016 Wikipedia says ~220 TWh but Strom says ~135 TWh.

EDIT: I see my mistake. I did not add both brown (~135 TWh) and black coal (~100 TWh) together (surprised to see those broken out, but it's a valid difference). In that case, the numbers still do not agree, but at least they are comparable.

[0] https://strom-report.de/strom/#stromerzeugung-deutschland-20...

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Another chart... Note some stats are percentage of consumption, others are percentage of generation. These differ due to imports and exports.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

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I don't see it. Strom-report says for 2016:

150 TWh Braunkohle + 110 TWh Steinkohle. For electricity production.

> surprised to see those broken out

Braunkohle has domestic production, Steinkohle no longer.

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Black coal is basically dead while brown coal might survive economically without carbon pricing.