The Germany has become the world superpower after its new solar power generation record by meeting half of the country weekend power demand through its renewable energy sources. The Germans solar plants have fed a whopping 22 Giga watts of solar power in one hour duration into its national grid. Nuclear energy tremendous increase from Japan and Russia had been predicted as power edge from these two countries, but after Fukushima disaster, the Japan had opted to shut down all of its nuclear power plants and Germany had great public pressure to stop use of nuclear energy as great damaging to living beings.
These circumstances paved the way for more investment and future planning for solar energy generation. Nuclear energy had been found as un-friendly after many radiations damaging in five top nuclear power generation companies and that technology had also been using a low quantity ore of uranium for fission process. The Renewable Energy Industry (IWR) in Muenster announced that Saturday’s solar energy generation met nearly 50 percent of the nation’s midday electricity needs and was equal to 20 nuclear power stations working at their full capacity.
Germany is world leader in solar energy and has been remembered as solar roofs country, but after Government announcement to close down the 8 power plants because of Fukushima disaster and remaining nine till 2022, a great chaos was seen from public and Government officials in the start. A great pressure was mounted to find and invest in alternative renewable energy sources. Other power generation sources like biomass and wind are also expected to pick up the slack, but solar power had never been as important as much today.
After closing a one working day demand for powering the factories and offices on Saturday and half on the Friday, the country met all the power demand and broken its previous record of solar power industry. The director of IWR, Norbert Allnoch told the Reuters no country had ever produced as much photovoltaic energy as much Germans did today. In recent weeks, Germany had come closer to 20 GW mark and this was the first time they made it over.
“Now it has become clear that Germany is capable of meeting its all electricity demand renewable solar power industry, told the Director of IWR”. It is also found that now Germany can do with fewer nuclear power sources, gas burning plants and coal burning power generation sources if they want to maintain them too. Through Government support and effective planning for renewable energy generation, today Germans power industry has become the world leader in solar energy production.
Like most other European countries, Germany is aiming to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 1990 levels by 2020, but at this rate it is the country most likely to actually follow through. The record-breaking amount of solar power shows one of the world’s leading industrial nations was able to meet a third of its electricity needs on a work day, Friday, and nearly half on Saturday when factories and offices were closed.