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Chart: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig1-installed-net-power-generation-capacity-germany-20

Chart: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/gallery_image/public/paragraphs/images/fig1-installed-net-power-generation-capacity-germany-2002-2021.png?itok=k2BK48jz https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g... Whatever the merits, the most salient point on the issue is that nuclear power, by and large, doesn't matter. It's below 5 % of total now and was at about 15 % at its highest.

panick21_ 4y ago
20GW of nuclear instead of 20GW of coal actually matters quite a lot. Also capacity is a dumb thing to look at. There can be week long streches where solar has like 5% utilization. Of course Germany could have done what France did, there the graph looks quite different if you go back to the 1960 to now.