This week, German authorities proudly announced a 21% increase of installed solar power at the end of March, from March 2022. Nominal power went from 58,500 to 70,180 MW.
The nominal power is, of course, not the actual power produced. The latter depends on whether and how long the Sun shines over Germany. The truth is: The more Germany depends on solar panels during the day, the more Germany burns fossil fuels during the night.
Italian Prof. Franco Battaglia has exposed the German renewables fraud in an article for the daily La Verità on June 22, entitled “Germany Imposes Green Diktats but Uses More Gas and Coal than Ever.”
“In the last three years, the fossil input to electricity production has increased from 44% in 2020 to 51% in 2022,” Battaglia wrote. Why, despite the nominal increase in “renewables” capacity, financed with billions of taxpayers money?
Taking the week of April 20-26, 2022 as a reference (a spring day, representing average year circumstances), data show that power demand oscillates between a minimum of 40 and a peak of 65 GW. There are indeed two peaks: one at noon and another one (55 GW) at about 7 p.m. On the supply side, photovoltaic production has a peak at noon as well, but it goes down to zero at 7 p.m., when the demand is 55 GW. Wind power helps, Battaglia wrote, but it never produces more than 30 GW, i.e., half of the demand.
