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“Young Scientist” . # 2 (501) . January 2024 Economics and Management Considering all the facts mentioned above, I might spec- ulate about the future of German renewable energy sources usage. Firstly, Germany is said to be a country with high poten- tial in the energy transition using renewable sources of energy such as wind and solar power. It has relatively favorable geo- graphical conditions for the development of green energy — Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein and other coastal regions are suitable for the development of wind energy while the largest solar parks are located in Brandenburg and Bavaria. No doubt, that every technological innovation tends to create new workplaces. And Germany is no exception. Workers previously employed at nuclear power plants or coal mines may be retrained or retired earlier. There will be a strong need for highly specialized personnel to create and maintain solar park, windmills etc. The government also plans to reduce the time needed for permitting processes to build solar and wind power plants — from several years to several months. There is still a need for conventional sources of energy — when there are few sunny days or wind is not strong enough to cover all the needs. Concerning the statistics [Fig. 1], Ger- many still gets approximately 10 % of energy from gas and 30 % of energy from coal, though its last mining site was closed in December 2018. Germany does not require such amount of energy sources, so it has to import them. In 2022 Russia re- mained the biggest coal supplier for Germany together with RSA and Columbia [12]. But due to the current geopolitical situation, Germany has announced a plan of getting rid of Rus- sian energy sources. I assume that Germany will try to look for new suppliers of energy sources. For this reason, possible part- ners might be South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway, the USA or UAE. However, I assume that the vector of the German transfor- mation will shift towards green hydrogen. It is said to be more eco-friendly with «negative» CO 2 emission [13]. Germany has already signed an agreement with UAE about the production of green hydrogen and constructed green hydrogen produc- tion centers in several African countries. It invests in another countries’ green transformation to secure future fuel supplies. If Germany continues to stimulate the development of Africa, the country will even be able to see a new partner in its face. To sum up, Germany is confidently moving towards aban- doning non-renewable energy sources. Although there are problems of a bureaucratic, geographical and political nature, I am sure that Germany has a great potential. I doubt that Ger- many will place much emphasis on the construction of solar and wind power plants, since it immediately considered them only as means of transition. Anyway, solar and wind power to- gether make up 43,2 % of all energy sources with wind power being the most important one and solar energy on the 3 rd place [Fig. 7]. In addition, demontage as well as construction of such power plants costs a lot of money. If Germany can over- come the energy crisis associated with the sanctions imposed against the Russian Federation, then it might be able to achieve its goals in energy transition using green hydrogen as the main source of energy. жүктеу/скачать 3.9 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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