SOCIETY / TECHNOLOGY - GERMANY

Was never as much solar power

40 Percent of nationwide electricity covered the Sun at the Whitsun Saturday afternoon. No country had ever so much solar power on the net.by Bernward Janzing

When the weather lifted not only floats off, but also the photovoltaic. Image: dapd

FREIBURG taz | The Whitsun weekend new values for the photovoltaic brought in Germany: on the Saturday the 1.1 million solar power systems in Germany produced according to the transmission system operator temporarily up to 22.2 gigawatt (million kilowatt). This is a new world record. No country on Earth had ever so much solar power on the net.

The Sun covered more than 40 percent of nationwide electricity at a total electricity consumption during this period in Germany of something over 50 gigawatts. In the South of Germany, at times even more than half of the need was covered by solar energy, in the network of EnBW the solar share on the Saturday even came up to 60 percent. Produced at the Pfingstsamstag - as well as on the day before - to approximately 190 million kilowatt hours of solar energy summed up over all day. That was more than even before ten years was produced throughout the year. Calculated over the full 24 hours each fifth kilowatt hour in the power supply from the Sun came to the Pfingstsamstag in Germany.

 

The holidays a phenomenon that there will regularly be in future showed on the electricity market in addition: the midday stream was the cheapest in the whole day due to the strong supply of solar energy. So the current cost only one-third of the evening and Nachtstroms at the Pentecost Sunday in the noon on the spot market for electricity exchange. So far, such a reversal of usual for decades Preisgefüges with cheap night and expensive day flow occurs only weekends low-consumption, but with further extension to photovoltaic systems the midday stream will be in a few years also on working days again and again the cheapest electricity.