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Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude:

by cygx 7y ago

Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude: 2002 2018 Total 503 545 Coal+Oil 253 205 Nuclear 156 72 Gas 40 44 Biomass 4 45 Wind+Solar+Hydro 39 177 Other 10 3 https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&period=annual&year=all https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

brazzy 7y ago
More significantly, the increase in gas is more than offset by a decrease in coal and oil.
- jhayward 7y ago
  Right. Quantitatively: Coal declined by 48 TWh Gas increased by 4 TWh. Nuclear declined by 84 TWh. Renewables picked up the slack by adding 130 TWh of generation.