Parts of HN continue to live in an alternative reality. I fail to grasp how this obviously factually wrong comment can even exist, let alone be a top comment.
* Germany's coal use is now at a historic minimum, comparable to the 2020 COVID year outlier
* Germany does not use coal for heating
* Germany does not struggle to heat its homes. Even if it did, it was around 16 degrees Celsius around new year's, so people did not need to heat much in the warm winter
* Solar, wind and renewables in general are one of the most exciting and fastest developing industries in the world
Could people check basic easy to find facts before posting?
The law was not changed to reduce heating temperatures since you can regulate temperature yourself. The law defines a minimal temperature that needs to be reached, otherwise you are entitled to have the heating fixed or get your rent reduced. This minimum was reduced. Ironically this helped my neighbor finally get her heating fixed since she realized she can complain about this to her landlord and they fixed it fast once she did that.
Again, coal use is at a historic minimum and this is easy to find. Here is the chart for electricity production until 2022 [1] and here is the data for the first half of this year [2]:
> The electricity production from lignite was down 21 percent, hard coal was down 23 percent, natural gas was down 4 percent, and nuclear declined by 57 percent, compared to 2022 values.
As far as I know heating with coal is negligible.
I don't get your point about renewables - their expansion has been on a basically exponential curve, but the starting point was practically zero. The world is installing massive amounts and will continue to do so - Germany played a large role in that.
* Germany's coal use is now at a historic minimum, comparable to the 2020 COVID year outlier
* Germany does not use coal for heating
* Germany does not struggle to heat its homes. Even if it did, it was around 16 degrees Celsius around new year's, so people did not need to heat much in the warm winter
* Solar, wind and renewables in general are one of the most exciting and fastest developing industries in the world
Could people check basic easy to find facts before posting?