This myth keeps on perpetuating. But if you look at the numbers, coal generation in Germany has basically been in a slow decline since it peaked about fifteen y

This myth keeps on perpetuating. But if you look at the numbers, coal generation in Germany has basically been in a slow decline since it peaked about fifteen years ago, which is also when they started getting rid of nuclear, which was never a big part of their energy generation. Coal usage could have been declining faster of course without that. And recent events have made Russian gas a bit less attractive and they burned a bit more coal. But now that the gas crisis is contained, they'll get back on track cleaning up the energy economy. Winter is coming to an end here and absolutely nobody is talking about cold showers and lowering the heating here anymore like last year. LNG is expensive so they have some incentive to get rid of their dependency on that. It doesn't really make sense to use that for electricity generation. I'm not super hopeful they will be able to completely get rid of coal by the 2030s like they have been insisting they will. But it will eventually get done. And it's one of those things where the more coal gets shut down, the more attractive it gets to get rid of the rest as well. That's also why they got rid of their last three nuclear plants. I agree, not their wisest move, but on the other hand it kind of focused them on a future without nuclear. Which, like it or not, seems what they've committed to. I don't see that change anytime soon. Those three plants disappearing is in the past. It's done. Next up is shutting down brown coal. That's something some parties are still resisting. But they are under a lot of pressure to get rid of this embarrassingly dirty industry.