r/RenewableEnergy • u/DVMirchev • 8d ago

Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 electricity mix, with solar contributing 14% – pv magazine International

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/01/03/germany-hits-62-7-renewables-in-2024-energy-mix-with-solar-contributing-14/

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u/MeteorOnMars 8d ago

A while back someone claimed to me that renewables would never be significant.

I asked him for a specific goalpost that would prove his statement wrong.

We settled on “a large country like Germany reaching 50% renewable electricity over a year”.

Today that goalpost is passed. Nice.

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u/iqisoverrated 5d ago

..and they kept telling us that with more than 10% renewables in the mix we would have constant blackouts.

To give people an idea: the system average interruption duration index (SAIDI...which is basically the number of minutes of power outages one can expect over the course of a year) has been getting better since we started adding massive amounts of renewables to the grid. Beginning of the century the SAIDI in germany were hovering around 20 minutes (low and high voltage grid combined). Since then it's dropped to around 10. Looking just at he low voltage parts of the grid (which is relevant for the average household) we have come down from roughly 3 minutes to 2.4 minutes per year.

https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/EN/Areas/Energy/SecurityOfSupply/QualityOfSupply/start.html

(For comparison. France - with lots of supposedly 'stable' nuclear power - has a SAIDI of around 24 minutes. The US has around 2 hours.)