This is a useful story Dave, thanks for posting, the link to german electricity estimates will be really useful for a study I've intended to do on German energy resources for a while now.
What will not be obvious from that data, assuming it is purely German utlitilies energy data, is the amount of energy being received by domestic and community solar installations. This has to have an economic effect, since it will result in creation of economic product which is not monetised by issue of money as debt. The reason for that is complex to explain, but in short, profit is an energy con, and the sun can't be conned. Money issued as debt is exclusively a requisition to extract energy from the planet.
Estimating that energy grabbed by domestic and community installations from the sun can be done by noting that prior to domestic and community solar, energy consumption per capita used to follow a fairly reliable constant, energy consumption tracked population growth up until around 2005, when domestic and community solar began to have effect.
Since then, utilities energy supply has declined in every country.
Now maybe you see the real reason utilities energy companies are still blowing up financially, despite record profits, thier market is literally shrinking whilst their shareholder base does not.
To top that off, where a domestic installation produces its own energy, a proportion of which is then fed back to the grid, the utilities company then has to pay the contributing consumer for the energy put back in.
Can you imagine owning a shop that has to buy back its own product sold previously, with no choice in the matter, not even over when it happens? That has to be a cashflow nightmare for any business.
Anyhow if you would like to see how to do the analysis, you can do with ChatGPT assistance, or manually, both methods are shown linked or included in the story below:
