3 ms·
They are really advanced for renewable relatively speaking, but also just got rid of the last nuclear so they ran out of options since green tech doesn't cover
by franciscop 3y ago
They are really advanced for renewable relatively speaking, but also just got rid of the last nuclear so they ran out of options since green tech doesn't cover 100% yet in Germany.
IMHO and in many external observers opinion they did it the wrong way, the sane way would be as renewable adoption grows to first phase out carbon, then gas, then nuclear. Gas was forced to phase out (Russia->Ukraine war), and for some reason they are closing nuclear before renewable is common enough, so the only remaining option is carbon.
- jacooper 3y agoThe reason is dumb politics and antinuclear movements in the green party. This government is going to get obliterated in the next election there.
- ulfw 3y agoMerkel wasn't any better. She tried to be greener than the Greens. It was under her government that nuclear was decided to get phased out. Fukishima did a panic on her government, even though German nuclear plants are neither on earthquake faults nor on tsunami-prone coasts. Her way of drifting more and more in that direction has propagated a new right wing extremest party (AfD) to come up as well. A ton of things she did wrong domestically.