{"id":4813,"date":"2015-01-25T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2015-01-25T07:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T12:42:47","slug":"coal-casts-cloud-over-germanys-energy-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany\u2019s Energy Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/01\/24\/coal-casts-cloud-over-germany-s-energy-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany\u2019s Energy Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply\u2014leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">CO<\/span>2 emissions fell by only 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Wind, solar, hydropower and biomass reached a new record, producing 27.3% (157bn kilowatt hours) of Germany\u2019s total electricity and overtaking lignite (156bn kWh), according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ag-energiebilanzen.de\/4-1-Home.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"caps\">AGEB<\/span><\/a>, a joint association of energy companies and research institutes.<\/p>\n<p>This was an achievement that many energy experts could not have imagined just a few years\u00a0ago.<\/p>\n<h3>Lowest\u00a0level<\/h3>\n<p>Beyond that, Germany\u2019s primary energy consumption\u2014which includes the energy used in power generation, heating and transport\u2014fell to its lowest level since reunification with East Germany in 1990,\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">AGEB<\/span>\u00a0reports. It shrank by 4.8% compared with 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal Casts Cloud Over Germany\u2019s Energy Revolution The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its electricity supply\u2014leaving lignite, coal and nuclear behind. But researchers calculate that, allowing for the mild winter of 2014, the cut in fossil fuel use in energy production meant\u00a0CO2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[113,141,1004,147,1103,1015,359,369,674],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-co2","tag-coal","tag-electricity","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-germany","tag-global-warming","tag-renewable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}