Because renewables alone don’t replace nuclear or fossil fuel plants. Renewables with enough battery backup could, but then it’s no longer as available or cheap

Because renewables alone don’t replace nuclear or fossil fuel plants. Renewables with enough battery backup could, but then it’s no longer as available or cheap. Nuclear is much better suited for base load power than solar and wind. Take a look at this graph of German energy by source and Tw/H. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File%3AEnergy_mix_in_Germany.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/Fil... For all their good intentions of replacing nuclear with something cleaner and safer, you can see wind and solar grow, but not enough to offset the nuclear decrease. Natural gas consumption grows more to replace it. “Solar and wind instead of nuclear” is a false dichotomy because one can’t just swap out one with the other, at least not until grid batteries are far more available.