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IMO Germany is more set up to benefit from future developments than France and the numbers you cite may very well look a lot different in 10 years. What you are
by mcot2 6y ago
IMO Germany is more set up to benefit from future developments than France and the numbers you cite may very well look a lot different in 10 years. What you are giving is a static snapshot in time where France has a mature technology that is declining and Germany is rapidly moving to the future.
Nuclear certainly has a place in baseload generation but new greenfield development is rare and costs skyrocket upon decommissioning. On the other hand Germany is well positioned to take advantage of cost declines in battery storage to solve the intermittency problem. It’s not clear what France does when all of their reactors age out.
- realusername 6y ago> IMO Germany is more set up to benefit from future developments than France and the numbers you cite may very well look a lot different in 10 years Within 10 years, Germany will already have to replace a good half of their renewable capacity so I doubt that assessment will change. That's the next issue which is not often taken into account, those renewables have a very low lifespan.