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> By pulling out of nuclear, they poured billions in ENRs much earlier that other countries. That's a bit dual sided. Germany basically let France be their "ba
by jsiepkes 4y ago
> By pulling out of nuclear, they poured billions in ENRs much earlier that other countries.
That's a bit dual sided. Germany basically let France be their "battery" with it's nuclear reactors.
Germany also ensured that on the EU energy market energy out of renewables had to be bought first. Meaning that nuclear reactors became less profitable while Germany conveniently relied on them when there was low wind or low sun. That was quite a scummy move.
- it_citizen 4y agoNot arguing with that. But it might still be a net positive. But renewables is the real key for energy transition. The reality is that very few countries plan to move most of their energy production to nuclear. Even RTE (the French electricity company) said they will need to crank renewables to 50% of their energy mix to meet carbon neutrality by 2050 with their most pro-nuclear scenario (N03). Making renewables more competitive globally might have largely compensated the gas/goal emitted by Germany if it contributed to help developing countries to skip the fossil stage.