You are aware that this is over 5 years old data (2017!) for the German electricity mix, right?

Please don’t get me wrong, the scale up of renewable energy sources is certainly not going fast enough in Germany (thanks to our conservative government that ruled the country for 16 years until 2021!), but please argue this position using the real data for 2023 (57.7% renewables in the German electricity mix)!

Good for providing up to date data.

But damn, Germany could have been 65% fossil free if they hadn’t closed the nuclear plants prematurely.

Such a waste of carbon budget.

Anyway, you’re probably going to have a conservative government again after this one. Hope you don’t become the big laggards.

Noooooooo… The decision to get out of nuclear was made over ten years ago. It is done. The last three nuclear plants that shut down this and last year were not serviced, not licensed, had no fuel and no newly trained operators. Stop reviving this debate. What is the real crime here is that the conservative government did next to nothing to push renewables as an alternative. They were bought/lulled by cheap russian gas. Even now, conservative governments in the south and the east of the country refuse to build up renewable energy production for purely ideological reasons. Even if those decisions hurt their own economy.

Sorry I still don’t get it: why not reviving this debate? It’s never too late to kick-off construction of new nuclear plants.

Germans and their anti-nuclear cult have convinced themselves of a lot of falsehoods. It’s impossible to argue.

Germany is a small country (compared to the USA or China), which means they can easily trade with their neighbors. So, they will just overbuild renewables and trade for nuclear electricity with their neighbors, including us (Netherlands), but mostly Poland and France, which will build the most nuclear plants in the EU.

That’s the plan we compromised in the EU.

They pretend to be nuclear free and we go along with their delusion.