Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect

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1. Story
2. The Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz comes into force, guaranteeing renewable generators grid priority and a fixed feed-in tariff for twenty years. Its significance for this Journey is not German emissions, which it changed modestly and expensively, but cumulative global production volume: by guaranteeing a market at a known price it created demand for photovoltaic modules on a scale that pulled the industry down its learning curve, and German consumers paid a substantial premium in doing so. The subsidised deployment of an expensive technology by one country is one of the clearest historical instances of a nation buying down a global cost curve — whether deliberately or not is a matter of interpretation.
3. Knowledge
4. The experience (learning) curve
5. Photovoltaic solar generation
6. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect
7. Connections
8. Photovoltaic solar generation
9. The experience (learning) curve
10. The experience (learning) curve
11. The duck curve
12. Bhadla Solar Park
13. Electrolytic (green) hydrogen
14. Bell Telephone Laboratories announce the practical silicon solar cell
15. The conventional start of the photovoltaic module price series
16. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect
17. Chinese manufacturing takes over the photovoltaic supply chain
18. The photovoltaic learning curve is popularised as Swanson's law
19. The first Global Stocktake calls for tripling renewable capacity
20. Theodore Paul Wright
21. Photovoltaic solar generation
22. The horizontal-axis wind turbine
23. Lithium-ion battery storage
24. Nuclear fission power
25. International Energy Agency
26. Wright publishes the airframe cost-quantity relationship
27. The conventional start of the photovoltaic module price series
28. Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act takes effect
29. Chinese manufacturing takes over the photovoltaic supply chain
30. The photovoltaic learning curve is popularised as Swanson's law
31. Vogtle Unit 4 enters commercial operation
32. Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition
33. Evidence
34. Supports the finding that probabilistic forecasts built on observed cost-versus-cumulative-deployment relationships have outperformed the expert and official projections used in energy planning, and that solar, wind and storage costs have fallen at rates those projections repeatedly failed to anticipate. V55 verification basis: the paper was not retrieved in this session; the citation follows the reference declared in the Journey catalogue and the substance is stated from author knowledge. The fitted learning rates and their intervals were NOT read and are not quoted.