Cephalotus said:
Hillhater said:
Wind generators in Germany are "guaranteed" a feed in tarrif of 8€ct/kWh for 5 years, and a lower rate for the next 15 yrs.....
So who is paying the extra 4€cts ? ( hidden in taxes ?)
Again you are not up to date to the real data. They have to bid for the feed in tarif price now.......
...But only introduced in 2016, and only for new projects.
All the existing RE plants will still operate on the original agreed feed in tarif until their 20 yr contracts expire.
Then again, these are just "bid" prices, which bear no relationship to the actual cost of generation.
They are simply a way of securing a contract to supply an agreed amount of power, and unless you know the fine print in the tender , we do not know if that is a minimum price, or if those plants can still sell excess capacity into the peak markets at much higher costs ...as happens in other similarpower markets.
Also, there is a suspicion that some of these bids are speculative on future equipment and construction costs reducing significantly before they have to actually commence the projects.
Is a solar PV plant that is able to produce at around 5ct/kWh and produces most electricity when it is need most (during daytime) a good idea or is it that expensive, non efficient nonsese that you still think about it?
In more sunnier regions large solar PV plants can now produce electricity for less than 3ct/kWh....
No matter what the cost, a power source that does not work for several months of the year is a folly !
(Germany was reported to have only 10 hours equivalent of sunshine during all of December )
https://sunshinehours.net/2018/01/04/10-hours-of-sun-in-germany-for-december-2017/
Much of Germanys recent wind farm projects have been offshore,
No.
Installed wind capacity in Germany at the end of 2017
onshore: 50.29 GW
offshore: 5.27GW
Yes, but.. Most of the offshore capacity has been in the last 3 years
with generation costs 2-3 times higher than onshore.
So far there was just one bid round for wind offshore yet.
Result for average feed in tariff:
0,44ct/kWh...
??? 0,44ct/kWh. ??,.... Or. 44,0ct/kWh ?
Extreme either way .
...? sounds like € 4 bn of wasted money to me. Who is getting rich from that ?.
And the extra costs for those new grid lines to facilitate RE integration is .....??????
Who is getting rich opperation a grid in your country?.....
..The private owners of the distribution network (grid) which has been in private ownership for many years.
They are mostly overseas owners ..Chinese, French, USA, etc
So that kind of financial waste is revenue lost to our economy.