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In 2050, Germany produce electricity 100% from renewable energy

solar energyGermany, the country that leading adopters of solar cell technology to generate electricity GigaWatt 14 at the end of 2010, set a target to produce the overall supply of electricity from renewable energy sources in 2050.

Jochen Flasbarth, president of the Federal Environment Agency – a German government agency which deals with environmental issues – German target is not a dream in the daytime, because of technical and ecological point of view this target it is possible to achieve.

From the technical side, recently Germany has reached 16% of electricity from potential wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. This figure tripled from the previous fifteen years. Solar energy itself is almost reached 14 GW in this year and become the second country after the United States in the production of electricity from wind energy.

While the environmental side, from 1990 until 2020, Germany succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40%.

A study carried out by the agency also confirmed that the switch to electricity sourced from renewable by 2050 will provide an economic advantage, especially for export-oriented manufacturing industries. Besides tens of thousands of new jobs will be created simultaneously with the development of technologies and renewable energy industries.

The magnitude of the cost required to replace the entire supply of electricity from renewable energy sources is much smaller when compared with the costs of future generations of Germany if the problem of climate change is a major problem of the country.

August 8th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Energy, Green Research, renewable energy

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