<blockquote>'Yesterday, the European Energy Exchange (AEX) released figures for September, revealing that the price of baseload power in Germany has fallen by nearly 0.8 cents per kilowatt-hour over the past year – and has been cheaper than baseload power in France for 12 consecutive months.
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..The drop over the past 12 months in Germany has indeed been quite dramatic at around 18% – from 5.264 cents per kilowatt-hour in September 2011 to the current 4.467 cents last month.
The news is especially important because nuclear power, which provides slightly more than 75% of France's power supply, is often held to be an especially inexpensive source of baseload power..'
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German baseload power cheaper than French 12 months running, October 5, 2012</blockquote>
'..One of the charts .. shows not only that nuclear will disappear (the nuclear phaseout is national policy), but also that coal power will be ramped down considerably..'<blockquote>'..For international readers, one of the assumptions is perhaps even more interesting than all of these findings. One of the charts .. shows not only that nuclear will disappear (the nuclear phaseout is national policy), but also that coal power will be ramped down considerably, practically disappearing by the time the country reaches 80% renewable power. Here, we see why the international community misunderstands what Germany plans to do with coal. The country's phaseout of coal power is based not on an official policy, but rather on a general understanding among experts in the power sector that the switch to renewables will gradually obliterate the need for baseload power..'
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Little power storage or coal power needed for 40% green power supply, October 8, 2012</blockquote>
<blockquote>'..Years ago, [Denmark] switched from feed-in tariffs for wind power to market prices with an added “environmental premium” of around 0.013 euros..'
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'..the Danes currently getting more than 40% of their power from renewables..', October 4, 2012</blockquote>
<blockquote>'..At the end of September, the Danish Energy Agency announced that the country had crossed the 40% threshold for renewable power, making the share of green electricity in Denmark more than 50% greater than in Germany .. The Danes have an impressive goal of 100% renewable energy by 2050 for
all of their energy, not just electricity..'
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Denmark already has 40% renewable power, October 3, 2012</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
EcoGrid EUGerman grid reaches record reliability in 2011, September 5, 2012
'Embarassingly for Forbes, Norsk Hydro, one of the allegedly fleeing firms, announced only a few days after the article was published that it actually plans to shift production from Australia to Germany because of low wholesale electricity prices (retail prices in Germany are going up;
wholesale prices, down)..' -
Source, September 8, 2012
(Germany's Green Energy Revolution) - Wind- und Solaranlagen produzieren erstmals Strom mit über 30.000 MW Leistung'..it turns out that worldwide far more nuclear plants are scheduled to be decommissioned over the next few decades than will go online.' -
Source, September 15, 2012
(In the Electric Universe) - 'Japan joins countries such as Germany and Switzerland in turning away from nuclear power..'</blockquote>