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renewables are not big enough in a huge industrial and developed country like Germany Hysterical shutdown of nuclear plants following Fukushima lead to the gap
by PaywallBuster 5y ago
renewables are not big enough in a huge industrial and developed country like Germany
Hysterical shutdown of nuclear plants following Fukushima lead to the gap being covered by fossil fuels
also while US have very cheap gas from the domestic industry, Europe is constrained by a couple of pipelines and shipments and market fluctuations, so it didn't replace coal
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
- VintageCool 5y agoYour charts show lignite holding stable, hard coal declining, nuclear declining, natural gas increasing slightly, and renewables expanding tremendously. Renewables provided 45% of Germany's power production in 2020, and 41% in 2021 H1.
- PaywallBuster 5y agoI started writing the comment before looking at the chart however nuclear capacity fell by 8GW natural gas grew by 4GW and the charts only explain the capacity unlikely the renewables can replace nuclear in that sense of course, saying that the historical shutdown of nuclear was replaced by fossil fuels I mean in the same and following year. If Germany keeps betting big on renewable after that and it's currently producing 41% it's a different story