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Originally Posted by Watser?
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German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said ... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50% of the nation's midday electricity needs.
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Last Weekend, Half of Germany Was Running on Solar Power : TreeHugger
This weekend was seriously sunny, but still. 50%!
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Meanwhile in Belgium electricity prices dropped to 1/5th of normal because of the overcapacity produced in that same weekend. Belgium had to export electricity to France to avoid problems caused by overcapacity, according to the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws:
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/957/Binnenl...rweekend.dhtml