Germany did scale up its natural gas usage - from 40TWh in 2002 to 44 TWh in 2018. That's a rounding error. In 2016, gas consumption in Germany was about indust

Germany did scale up its natural gas usage - from 40TWh in 2002 to 44 TWh in 2018. That's a rounding error. In 2016, gas consumption in Germany was about industrial (38%) and domestic homes usage (31%), not electricity production (15%). It may very well be that gas is going to play a major role in replacing coal, but that has yet to happen - while nuclear energy has already been cut back significantly.