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.

Not true. One big problem in Germany is that the grid can’t handle all the electricity generated by renewables so they often shut them down. Something you can’t do with nuclear l. Since nuclear got of the grid it got more capacity for renewables hence the share jumped this year.

That’s not how that works, mate. Nuclear is the highest priority of energy generation because it’s ultra cheap to produce and completely stable (once you have the reactors built, that is). If Germany still had those power plants, they could’ve dumped fossil and kept renewables, all while investing in energy storage.

Except that if you calculate the complete cost including building the plants it’s stupendously expensive compared to renewables even including energy storage.

Which is irrelevant, unless you’re representing a profit-seeking corporation (if that were the case, fuck off, then).

Nuclear costs double per kilowatt than solar tho??
And Nuclear Plants are always built by for profit companies?