Germany Nuclear Phase-Out

Germany suffers because they decided to abandon Nuclear, not invest in wind/solar. It’s possible to do both

Germany actually replaced the nuclear energy with wind & solar. The argument that remains is that instead of phasing out nuclear, reducing coal would have been preferred. The decision to phase out nuclear has long been made (for good reasons). Keeping them active or even building new reactors of that kind is not an economically viable solution. The price Germany pays for this is higher carbon emissions for the time being until renewables push coal out of the mix. What Germany gains, on the o

Oh, sure they are reaping.61.5% of Germany's electricity comes from renewable sources[1]. What nuclear generated has been replaced years ago, and they have a law to phase out coal completely.The only weird thing about it is that they're being hated on so much from the nuclear-bubble, while the bubble simultaneously drags the shield of innovation and environment protection. Meanwhile, there is negligible innovation in nuclear and saving the environment 2024 means acting fast. Noth

Germany is closing their nuclear power plants and increasing dependence on gas for "environmental" reasons - so this isn't happening.

Germany cancelled and closed lot of nuclear plants to go "fully renewable" years ago, as it's not possible today, they compensated lack of base-load with natural gas, and bought France electricity in the winter (well, sun is not strong in the winter).

They've been shutting down nuclear power and keeping coal.Take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...Nuclear went down, to be replaced by wind/solar. i.e. they did nothing useful.Actually it's worse than it looks - they've outsourced their CO2 emissio

Before making claims, please look up numbers. In the same period nuclear was shut off in Germany coal-use also went down.https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Energiemix_Deutsch...

Germany did not achieve "the opposite". Use of fossil fuels and CO2 emissions are constantly decreasing. But it is true that keeping existing nuclear plants running longer would have been good idea. But if one wants to complain about the past, why not complain that we collectively did not invest more in renewables earlier? In contrast to nuclear power, which did not become cheaper despite substantial investments, investments in renewables brought prices down substantially.

Yeah, sorry, native German speaker here, I got the tense wrong. Germany is in the process of phasing out coal, just as with nuclear. https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-coal-powe...

German energy policy baffles me.The were once the leader in nuclear energy. They really should have kept that lead, and built more nuclear plants and aggressively switched to electric first solutions such as heat pumps, EVs etc.Instead, they are winding down their nuclear power plants, and increasing their reliance on fossil fuels in the near to mid term, at the very least, which means issues like this will plague them for some time.No idea why they didn't pursue more