{"id":2762,"date":"2009-11-24T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/germany-as-much-new-solar-power-as-3-large-coal-or-nuclear-plants.html"},"modified":"2009-11-24T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:13:34","slug":"germany-as-much-new-solar-power-as-3-large-coal-or-nuclear-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/germany-as-much-new-solar-power-as-3-large-coal-or-nuclear-plants.html","title":{"rendered":"Germany: As much new solar power as 3 large coal or nuclear plants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nGermany leads the world in solar installation, according to\n\nErik Kirschbaum in Reuters 23 Nov 2009<\/a>:\n
\nGermany, the world’s leader in photovoltaic which turns sunlight into electricity, had 5.3 GW installed at the end of 2008, including a previous record 1.6 GW added in 2008.\n

\nThat was about a third of the world’s total of 15 GW. Three GW installed this year would produce as much power as three large coal-burning plants or three nuclear power plants.\n<\/blockquote>\nRemember, Stuttgart gets about as much sunlight as Pittsburgh.\nAnd that’s in the sunny south of Germany.\nGeorgia gets as much sunlight as Cyprus in the Mediterranean or Algiers\nin Africa.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany leads the world in solar installation, according to Erik Kirschbaum in Reuters 23 Nov 2009: Germany, the world’s leader in photovoltaic which turns sunlight into electricity, had 5.3 GW installed at the end of 2008, including a previous record 1.6 GW added in 2008. That was about a third of the world’s total of […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[558,23],"tags":[5962,5963,5961,8753,8781,8737,8714],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-renewable-energy","tag-angela-merkel","tag-bsw-solar","tag-carsten-koernig","tag-coal","tag-germany","tag-nuclear","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-Iy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}