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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 119

Your whole comment can be summed up with not having looked at actual numbers combined with outdated news articles and outright lies.

You can start at Our World in Data, which is great for getting an overall overview. As you can see there, nuclear power is dwindling because energy generation is going sideways (despite China's expansions) while demand is growing fast. It was over 17% back in its heyday in the 90s and is now below 9%, half of what it once was. Renewables meanwhile almost doubled from a low point in 2003 at 17% to 32% now, despite struggling electricity generation from hydro.

Again, this is the world, not just Germany.
China, an economy four times the size of Germany, is alternatively being associated with the "nuclear renaissance" or coal plants. In 2011 they started their transition from coal to nuclear and renewables, with the latter doubling from 17% to 34%. Nuclear meanwhile went from 2% to 5% but did you know that in the last three years, nuclear slipped back to 4%? It's simply because the build-out of renewables has been accelerated, especially last year. China is adding more renewable energy per year than the rest of the world combined, they are the poster child for solar and wind now.
Even in the biggest economy, the USA, which had a simultaneous high for nuclear power in 2001 at 21% and a low in renewable power of just 7.5%, since then dropped nuclear to 18% and upped renewables to 24%. It's the same trend in all the major economies, renewables won.

Yes, France was to blame for the electricity shortage in 2022, driving up costs in Germany. Also, Germany was to blame for the gas shortage by relying on Russian gas. Those two are not mutually exclusive.
You know what's not cute though? You repeating lies you heard from somewhere about Germany restarting coal power plants when in reality electricity generation from coal has been the lowest since the 50s after the last NPPs were shut down.
Regarding your outdated articles: I'm talking of what happened after the new government was formed, some weeks ago, get with the times.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 119

b) They built new LNG terminals but those were only finished recently and have been unused since. The natural gas from the Netherlands and Norway is enough to compensate, even if a bit pricier than from Russia.

Also, the decision to let the last three NPPs run until spring was because unfortunately many NPPs in France were out of commission that year due to maintenance and they mainly heat with electricity, so Germany had to produce more than usual for export. Electricity in winter is otherwise no issue in Germany because it has lots of wind power that is typically stronger during that time.

c) The new government only reversed on new potential future nuclear power technology to appease their voters but confirmed that nuclear power is over for the foreseeable future which (rightfully) upset their voters who before the election were promised an actual reversal with re-powering the shut down NPPs, which was never going to happen and they knew it but some people like to be lied to, I guess. There are no plans to build new NPPs. Instead, the new minister for economy is planning a huge expansion into natural gas power plants and banking on getting Russian gas Real Soon again, even though that "experiment" with wind and solar is going to make them obsolete before they are built.

People need to stop viewing Germany as the poster child of wind and solar power. They may have built it sooner than the rest but nowadays there are plenty of countries that build out wind and solar faster than Germany, like Brazil, China, Greece, India, Spain.. The world has decided. It was just in April this year that solar electricity generation has surpassed nuclear power generation worldwide for the first time after wind did that years ago. The number of new NPPs being built in China may sound dramatic but it's almost nothing compared to their build-out of wind and solar and will stay in single digits of the electricity mix.

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