Particularly the line: "...the following Monday, German solar power took center stage once again by accounting for 50.6 percent of total electricity demand...", which makes it seem like 50% of the power needs for the full day were provided by solar vice only doing so for a short period in the early afternoon.

I've seen people who misinterpret it to mean that Germany now gets half of her electricity from solar.

Having said that... they're having an outstanding year for renewables production (even without a substantial capacity increase). The weather is really behaving better than it has in years. Fossil fuel use for generation is down across the board YTD - when the last couple years saw big increases in coal usage.

Good on Germany! I hope this trend spreads to the U.S.