By P Gosselin
Photovoltaics are escalating power grid instability in Germany, thus increasing the risk of regional blackouts. Too many cheap, uncontrollable systems from China are flooding the market.
“Millions of solar installations will have to be torn down”
Hat-tip: Alexander Raue
In Germany there are growing fears of power grid blackouts. The reason: The effects that the “rapid expansion of photovoltaics” is having on grid stability.
“Many countermeasures will not take effect for years,” reports the online business daily Handelsblatt. “In 2023 alone, the number of photovoltaic systems connected to the grid rose by 30 percent to 3.4 million units, the Federal Statistical Office announced on Monday.”
As more and more small-scale systems get installed, the more unstable power grids are becoming, experts are warning. Because wherever more electricity gets produced than consumed, the grid can collapse.
“In the worst case, this could mean local power cuts, warns the Association of Municipal Enterprises (VKU), which brings together many municipal utilities,”reports the Handelsblatt. Small, private rooftop systems have gained wide popularity across Germany, The problem however, is their technology.
“The majority of systems cannot currently be switched off automatically if too much electricity is produced in certain phases and regions,” the Handelsblatt adds. This is leading to grid overloading and instability.
Online news-video publisher Alexander Raue also blames the grid instability problem on “cheap solar systems from China.”
“I believe there’s a well-functioning technology available -already today- but it’s considerably more expensive. And because the market is being flooded by millions of cheap products from China, thrifty German consumers are snatching up the Chinese junk and are thus putting the German power grid in jeopardy,” says Raue. All of this is being promoted by Germans Economics Minister, Robert Habeck.
“The electricity grid operators have now issued an explosive blackout warning about solar power! Millions of solar installations will have to be torn down, as Habeck’s favorite project, of all things, means the collapse of Germany!” Raue comments.
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