The power at night and when the wind doesn't blow comes from either: 1. Batteries (insignificant) 2. Hydro 3. Nuclear 4. Fossil Fuels Germany killed number th

The power at night and when the wind doesn't blow comes from either: 1. Batteries (insignificant) 2. Hydro 3. Nuclear 4. Fossil Fuels Germany killed number three, and they did not build sufficient hydro or batteries to compensate. That means that they replaced nuclear with fossil fuels. Now, they might not have built a new cool power plant for every nuclear power plant that they decommissioned, but had they not decommissioned that nuclear power plant, they could have decommissioned those fossil fuel plants instead. That is just as much a replacement in my mind.