Apple Commits Energy Accounting Fraud

He claims that Germany gets 5% of its electricity needs from renewable sources, when it is in fact 26% (I know he focuses on wind and solar, which is another problem I have with this text.)

The graph about electricity production from wind and solar and overall production is misleading. Because he writes about production but shows capacity. Which is very confusing. Also I'm not sure if he understood the statistics from the EEX. I'm not sure I understand them fully.

The comment about that you can't avoid fossil energy when you are connected to the grid is physically true of course. But it is the point for what you are paying. The grid is a lake of energy, and if I pay someone to put the amount of renewable electricity into this lake as I use, fossil energy is not put into this lake.

That is why a market for renewable energy works. There are few companies in German which sell renewable energy to end consumers. I get the same electricity as everyone around me but I pay for something else.

But I agree, those green energy certificates like RECS are utterly pointless. They do not helping.

Lotto proceeds support education - but state budgets are fungible - so if money is taken away from education because of lotto proceeds then lottos are not supporting just education. so the question becomes what would have happened in the absence of the lotto...anyway poor analogy but you get the drift that like most things "its more complicated than that..."

E2A: In particular, what's not clear to me is whether Apple set up enough solar to feed energy into the grid part of the time, offsetting their energy use at other times.