Solar is helping prevent heatwave power cuts in Europe
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Record-breaking temperatures have put pressure on Europe's energy systems but increased output from solar is helping to fill the gap.
  • @HairHeel@programming.devEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

    When soaring temperatures and demand for cooling led to a peak in Sicilian power demand on 24 July, nearly half of the excess demand - which totalled 1.3 GW - was covered by solar, Refinitiv data show.

    So basically wherever the 1.3 GW of capacity came from (could be a bolt of lightning, or some Libyan plutonium, for example), it would have been much worse if they didn’t have it.

    • @zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Could have just as easily said it would have been “much worse” without fossil fuels.

      Sure, but heat-wave weather doesn’t increase the supply of fossil fuel energy.