What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
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@xerz @disorderlyf @bradr The infamous "sun tax" applied to residential PV only - and industrial PV farms were perfectly happy with it, as it meant less PV production from residential customers, thus higher demand and higher prices in peak PV production hours. The boom in PV is just business. Lower investment, lower TCO (compared to wind etc).
PV and wind installed power reached parity in 2024. Installed PV is growing at 25-30% annually, installed wind power is growing at 2-4%.
@mbpaz @disorderlyf @bradr Okay I might not be reading well the old law, but I understood the old tax ("peaje") applied to everyone, and they were just specifiying "autoconsumo" even for those who are not connected to the grid
the PV boom is net business indeed tho, I just understood that the Rajoy administration was hostile enough with the aforementioned tax (which killed the previous, Zapatero-era policy of solar panel roofs in new lots) that the numbers stopped making sense until it got all lifted -
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@thegarbagebird I lived long enough to believe that it takes quite a while. Give it some thought. I'm sure you will realize that adoption takes quite a long time for big shifts. Just look at railroads.
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@thegarbagebird I would say so. I could only wish the US were half as fast. I live in Arizona. There is very little solar despite unrelenting sunshine. Every parking lot could have shaded parking that contributes to the grid. Can we do that? In 2026 the answer is still "no."
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr The headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht, seized by Spain's debts towards renewables
Embargada la sede del Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht por deudas
Un tribunal neerlandés autorizó el embargo de la sede del Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht por impagos derivados del recorte a las renovables aprobado por el Gobierno español en 2013.
euronews (es.euronews.com)
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@bradr and that is why the EU wants to destroy this process
La UE prohíbe proyectos de energías renovables con fondos europeos que lleven piezas de China
Bruselas señala que hay riesgos de dependencia de materiales y de ciberataques que podrían provocar "apagones a nivel nacional". La Comisión Europea señala directamente a Huawei, un fabricante global de componentes de placas solares, que tiene numerosas inversiones en España
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@KimeraGupta @bradr That makes zero sense: When you can no longer buy solar panels you keep producing electricity with the current ones, for many years; while the moment you can't buy fossil fuels you stop generating energy because they're single use. You burn it and it's gone. And as the skyrocketing fuel prices have shown us, that's a critical dependency.
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@gim @gekko3k @bradr Coal usage for electricity generation in Spain is exactly zero now - no coal power stations remain.
Roughly 40-50% actual (not installed) generation is wind+solar, depending on the weather, ~15% nuclear, 10-20% hydro.
The major remaining polluting source is gas (in combined cycle stations), hard to replace for technical reasons. Also about 1% total energy comes from diesel generators in islands.
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@gim @gekko3k @bradr Coal usage for electricity generation in Spain is exactly zero now - no coal power stations remain.
Roughly 40-50% actual (not installed) generation is wind+solar, depending on the weather, ~15% nuclear, 10-20% hydro.
The major remaining polluting source is gas (in combined cycle stations), hard to replace for technical reasons. Also about 1% total energy comes from diesel generators in islands.
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@bradr The headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Utrecht, seized by Spain's debts towards renewables
Embargada la sede del Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht por deudas
Un tribunal neerlandés autorizó el embargo de la sede del Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht por impagos derivados del recorte a las renovables aprobado por el Gobierno español en 2013.
euronews (es.euronews.com)
[for the peanut gallery:] That's part of a big mess, something like €1.5 billion in civil judgements, that Spain is contesting, dating back to the 2011-2013 EU Sovereign Debt Crisis (when Rajoy retroactively canceled the 2007 green energy payment guarantee).
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@disorderlyf @xerz @bradr to be honest, it's in large part a coincidence. It takes over 5 years (sometimes much longer) since a wind farm is proposed until it comes online.
Renewables are becoming the main source of electricity simply because of economics. Governments do not need to push renewables: they simply have to avoid punishing them.@mbpaz a feat Germany has yet to achieve @disorderlyf @xerz @bradr
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@energisch_ WIR können Politik machen @bradr
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@thegarbagebird I would say so. I could only wish the US were half as fast. I live in Arizona. There is very little solar despite unrelenting sunshine. Every parking lot could have shaded parking that contributes to the grid. Can we do that? In 2026 the answer is still "no."
@Axomamma what is hindering it? @thegarbagebird
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@bradr Great news, but this is _only_ aboute electricity production. Is there a graph with _all_ energy and fossil use? I.e. including motor traffic (which still runs on oil), heavy industries and chemical processes?
@pietervdvn This was the comment I was about to make. We're doing ourselves a disservice every time there's progress on electricity generation and it is announced as all energy being transitioned from fossil to green. Electricity is the easier task of the two energy challenges - the hard one is fuel @bradr
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr I needed to see this. Thank you.
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@pietervdvn This was the comment I was about to make. We're doing ourselves a disservice every time there's progress on electricity generation and it is announced as all energy being transitioned from fossil to green. Electricity is the easier task of the two energy challenges - the hard one is fuel @bradr
And yet, electrification of industrial heat processes (or rather greenification, since it's a mix of electrification, process changes, and efficiency increases) continues apace. It's not all or nothing, but it's also not nothing.
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr @gnoll110
It's almost always Ember delivering the BS.
Energy use is more than electricity, and there is much more to be done before Spain has an energy transformation.
Spain is fossil fuelled + 50% oil consumption.
check for yourself at iea.org:
https://www.iea.org/countries/spain
or climateactiontracker.org:
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu/Yes, there's progress, but too little, too late.
#spain #climate #fossilfuels -
@bradr @gnoll110
It's almost always Ember delivering the BS.
Energy use is more than electricity, and there is much more to be done before Spain has an energy transformation.
Spain is fossil fuelled + 50% oil consumption.
check for yourself at iea.org:
https://www.iea.org/countries/spain
or climateactiontracker.org:
https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/eu/Yes, there's progress, but too little, too late.
#spain #climate #fossilfuelsIt is an important trend. Electrical power needs to be cheap and abundant, to lead other activities to transition away from fossil carbon.
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What's the opposite of doom scrolling?
Spain just pulled off one of the fastest energy transformations in Europe.
@bradr what happened in 2014 to cause such forceful temporary stagnation?
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@Axomamma what is hindering it? @thegarbagebird
@carl You cannot seriously be asking.
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And yet, electrification of industrial heat processes (or rather greenification, since it's a mix of electrification, process changes, and efficiency increases) continues apace. It's not all or nothing, but it's also not nothing.
@bradr The point is that these changes are both unaccounted for in these news and also much slower changing. In worst case we ignore that huge area of energy transition. @pietervdvn
