Growth in german wind capacity is slowing. Soo… then the plan is to keep on with lignite and gas? Am I missing something?

Installed Wind Capacty - Germany

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Demand sheduling.

The current grid is run on the idea that we ramp up power plants until the current demand is met.

The future will be to make the demand flexible and follow the availability. Typical example is when to charge a car battery, but it also goes for heating and cooling applications, using power to x converters, like hydrogen production, sheduling household appliances like washing machines and industrial processes.

Doing so we can close the gap between real baseload and available renewable supply, which in turns reduces the amount of storage needed.

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