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The article is dead. Can anyone tell me whether fossil fuels have reduced more than they would have done had nuclear continued? I suspect not.
by epanchin 2y ago
The article is dead. Can anyone tell me whether fossil fuels have reduced more than they would have done had nuclear continued?
I suspect not.
- GTP 2y agoReading the article, I'm not able to answer your question. But the decrease in fossil fuels consumption doesn't seem to have any link with the abandonment of nuclear power. They cite other things as the driving factors. Archived article is here https://web.archive.org/web/20240515172653/http://ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/press-releases/2024/status-quo-one-year-since-germanys-nuclear-exit-renewable-capacity-expands-electricity-from-fossil-fuels-significantly-reduced.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240515172653/http://ise.fraunh...
- froh 2y ago> The analysis covering the period from mid-April 2023 to mid-April 2024 shows that the loss of nuclear power in Germany could be well compensated. Contrary to claims, the increase in imports was not due to a lack of generation capacity in Germany, but rather due to the favorable electricity generation prices of renewable power plants in the Alps and Scandinavia. see sibling comments for access to the article. also > "In fact, electricity generation from nuclear power was replaced by renewable electricity generation. In the first year without nuclear power, around 270 TWh of renewable electricity was generated, 33 TWh more than in the same period last year. Our electricity mix is cleaner than ever before," explains Prof. Bruno Burger, who is responsible for Fraunhofer ISE's energy-charts data platform. Between April 2023 and April 2024, renewable energy accounted for 58.8 percent of the electrical load, the sum of net public electricity consumption and grid losses, in Germany.