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Progress towards an all-renewable electricity supply

Progress towards an all-renewable electricity supply correspondence Progress towards an all-renewable electricity supply To the Editor — We agree with your Electricity prices are highest at the electricity in southern Italy is already 1 6 editorial on the need for more funding for time of peak demand. Data from the below grid parity . renewable energy research. However, we Kombikraftwerk project show that PV We also agree that ‘wind and other would like to make a few points. supply in Germany is at its maximum clean technologies need to be developed First of all, on the issue of the within an hour or so of the peak daytime in parallel’. However, the Kombikraftwerk commercial competitiveness of photovoltaic demand on most days in summer and project has shown that an all-renewable (PV) electricity generation we would like winter . The PV contribution is smaller electricity supply is possible with existing to note that PV is already cutting the price in winter than in summer. Hence the cost technologies . Throughout 2006 the project of electricity on German and Italian grids. reduction is less in winter (Fig. 1b). matched 1/10,000 of the real-time demand Figure 1a shows the cumulative installed Figure 1a shows Italy catching up on the German grid to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Progress towards an all-renewable electricity supply

Nature Materials , Volume 11 (11) – Oct 23, 2012

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2012 by Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN
1476-1122
eISSN
1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat3466
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correspondence Progress towards an all-renewable electricity supply To the Editor — We agree with your Electricity prices are highest at the electricity in southern Italy is already 1 6 editorial on the need for more funding for time of peak demand. Data from the below grid parity . renewable energy research. However, we Kombikraftwerk project show that PV We also agree that ‘wind and other would like to make a few points. supply in Germany is at its maximum clean technologies need to be developed First of all, on the issue of the within an hour or so of the peak daytime in parallel’. However, the Kombikraftwerk commercial competitiveness of photovoltaic demand on most days in summer and project has shown that an all-renewable (PV) electricity generation we would like winter . The PV contribution is smaller electricity supply is possible with existing to note that PV is already cutting the price in winter than in summer. Hence the cost technologies . Throughout 2006 the project of electricity on German and Italian grids. reduction is less in winter (Fig. 1b). matched 1/10,000 of the real-time demand Figure 1a shows the cumulative installed Figure 1a shows Italy catching up on the German grid to

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Nature MaterialsSpringer Journals

Published: Oct 23, 2012

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