Forgive me, when I wrote "lack of cooling water", while there might be water, but you cannot use it for cooling because of the temperatures of the river. But th

Forgive me, when I wrote "lack of cooling water", while there might be water, but you cannot use it for cooling because of the temperatures of the river. But the consequence is the same. Yes, France exports power, but not TO Germany. It exports ACROSS Germany to other countries. The power gets there using the German grid, but not consume in Germany. The French power isn't needed in the German grid - the only time French power is used in the German grid might be short times when there is surplus production which needs to be absorbed in Europe.