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Germany's energy transition to green is arguably not a failure. Renewable energies manage to replace most of nuclear production in 15y while still reducing coal

Germany's energy transition to green is arguably not a failure. Renewable energies manage to replace most of nuclear production in 15y while still reducing coal usage: https://energytransition.org/2018/01/german-energy-consumption-2017/ https://energytransition.org/2018/01/german-energy-consumpti...

edhelas 4y ago
https://www.montelnews.com/news/1323149/germany-may-allow-return-of-10-gw-capacity-in-gas-crunch https://www.montelnews.com/news/1323149/germany-may-allow-re... 24 May 2022 16:36 > (Montel) The German government plans to allow a market return 10.4 GW of hard coal, lignite and oil-fired reserve capacity if a gas supply crunch threatens power supply security, Montel learned on Tuesday. > The new rules are designed to use as little gas as possible in an emergency situation by replacing the generation from gas-fired power plants, a government document seen by Montel showed.
- adrianN 4y ago
  Nobody claims that Germany is currently independent of fossil fuels. I don't see how your quote is relevant.
  - edhelas 4y ago
    You were talking about reducing coal usage no ? But maybe there's a catch about re-commissioning coal massively and still planing to reduce it on the long term.
    - adrianN 4y ago
      I think we were talking about trends spanning several years and not emergency measures that try to increase economic pressures during a war.
- bpfrh 4y ago
  That article says that they want to replace gas with coal if russia cuts of the gas supply, what else would you expect? They also plan to change some laws to speed up transition to renewable energies: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_ueberblickspapier_osterpaket.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=12 https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_uebe... You can argue that renewable are not deployed fast enough in germany, and there are good arguments for that, but the article isn't about that.

edhelas 4y ago

https://www.montelnews.com/news/1323149/germany-may-allow-return-of-10-gw-capacity-in-gas-crunch https://www.montelnews.com/news/1323149/germany-may-allow-re... 24 May 2022 16:36 > (Montel) The German government plans to allow a market return 10.4 GW of hard coal, lignite and oil-fired reserve capacity if a gas supply crunch threatens power supply security, Montel learned on Tuesday. > The new rules are designed to use as little gas as possible in an emergency situation by replacing the generation from gas-fired power plants, a government document seen by Montel showed.

adrianN 4y ago
Nobody claims that Germany is currently independent of fossil fuels. I don't see how your quote is relevant.
- edhelas 4y ago
  You were talking about reducing coal usage no ? But maybe there's a catch about re-commissioning coal massively and still planing to reduce it on the long term.
  - adrianN 4y ago
    I think we were talking about trends spanning several years and not emergency measures that try to increase economic pressures during a war.
bpfrh 4y ago
That article says that they want to replace gas with coal if russia cuts of the gas supply, what else would you expect? They also plan to change some laws to speed up transition to renewable energies: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_ueberblickspapier_osterpaket.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=12 https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energie/0406_uebe... You can argue that renewable are not deployed fast enough in germany, and there are good arguments for that, but the article isn't about that.