I've said at more then one cocktail party that right wing politicians and leaders will take to burning down wind turbines and PV panels as they lose the battle, I wasn't aware it had already started happening.
Imagine a Coal Company CEO, a Major Right wing politician and a Guy named Koch
all calling on people to destroy Solar Power PV Panels, to end the boom?
Well it is true and it's all one guy.
Roland Koch, No Kidding, ran a coal power equipment company , Bilfinger AG and was a high ranking Right wing politician serving as President of the Bundesratt
This guy is Mitch McConnell in 5 years or David Koch if he had won office,
and he was calling for people to throw stones at PV Panels....
http://www.pv-magazine.de/...
The former prime minister of Hesse and current CEO of the construction company Bilfinger has called at a public event to throw stones on photovoltaic systems to complete(end?) the solar boom. A photovoltaic system operator then presented a complaint against Koch.
More after the Orange Dawn of Solar Power.
Seriously this guy was a serious operator in the German CDU and equivalent to
a German state governor, Senate Majority Leader and CEO of a major coal
power equipment company... Think Mitch McConnel, Rick Perry and David Koch
all in one package and he's calling on people to hurl rocks at PV panels???
First the ignore you, then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you, then you win-- M Ghandhi
When the only thing the Coal operators can call for is vandalism and violence,
they have nothing.
It's a common BS line from right wingers that Solar PV increases coal use.
No doubt one of the regular lowlifes will pop up claiming just that very thing.
Well, think about it, if Solar PV were to increase coal use, who would be
in favor of that? Mine operators, Coal Power generating companies,
Coal equipment fabricators, and coal trading/finance/transport, that whole
Coal Ecosystem, and we'd see rising coal prices....
In Fact, if Solar PV were to double Coal use, the Peabody's, the Arch, the Massey's
the Blankenships, would be cheerleading for PV.
Instead, we see them fighting PV, fighting RETs, fighting, Net metering,,,
and we see fella's like Koch calling for vandalism
and we are seeing stagnant coal prices
http://www.infomine.com/...
the 6 month price is even worse
http://www.infomine.com/...
the drooling right wingers call this Obama's war on coal but
http://in.reuters.com/...
Declining shipments to India would drag on global coal markets grappling with oversupply as top consumer and importer China tries to shift towards cleaner fuels.
china is moving to renewables
http://www.economist.com/...
Of the new power-generating capacity that China built last year, renewables such as wind and solar power for the first time accounted for more than the share made up of fossil fuels and nuclear energy
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Now, China -- which consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined -- is accelerating a planned switch to cleaner fuels, including a possible cap on carbon emissions and limits on new coal-fired plants.
Even if such changes don’t occur as fast as environmentalists might hope, Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to scrap the economic strategy that spawned coal-eating steel plants in every province. Mounting anti-coal sentiment in China and the U.S. imperils the ambitions of companies like Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU) and Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) in the world’s fastest-growing region.
So Back to Roland Koch....
What's happened to the firm he helmed?
http://www.renewablesinternational.net/...
It's losing money and leaving Germany for the greener pastures of Africa and Asia.
The German construction and services company also swung to a loss in the first nine months of 2014 due to impairment charges and restructuring costs stemming from worsening demand in its power and industrial business.
The announcement that Bilfinger sees little future for itself in Germany shows that there are instances in which losing a company is actually a goal of the Energiewende. The German firm now plans to move on to eastern Europe, South Africa, and Turkey, where coal plants are still being built.
as for Roland Koch?
Bilfinger’s profit warnings in 2014 led to the departure of Chief Executive Roland Koch, who resigned after the second profit warning
His ideological bent cost him his job, and hopefully he won't be returning to
politics.
as for renewables
about 1/3rd of all electricity in germany now comes from Renewables.
http://cleantechnica.com/...
renewable energy produced about 81 TWh, or 31% of the nation’s electricity during the first half of 2014. Solar production is up 28%, wind 19% and biomass 7% over last year. Meanwhile, with the exception of nuclear energy, all conventional sources are producing less. The output from gas powered plants was half of what it had been in 2010 and brown coal powered plants are producing at a similar level to 2010-2012.
http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/...
If Germany hold to things in 2-4 years Renewables will be the dominant electricity source.
But there were those who said "Renewables are meaningless at 1%" and those
who said "PV will destroy the grid at 1%"...
Germany is at 31%, and is on track to break 50%, they'd have been there already but the Merkel government slowed it down.
Germany is showing what a G-7 economy can do, if they would follow with
EV cars, by 2020, Germany could be at Carbon Zero.