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Germany will literally do anything to avoid undoing the foolish #atomausstieg
Germany counts on back-up coal power plants to drive down prices - euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/germany-counts-on-back-up-coal-power-plants-to-drive-down-prices/
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@jmaris the Atomausstieg may have been a mistake, but there's absolutely no point in reversing that now. If you start planning a new nuclear plant now, it'll be finished by 2040 if you're lucky. Way too late to help figut climate change
#NAFO @jmaris@eupolicy.social@nightoo you're planning for our current energy needs, not those after electrification. As demand grows so does our generation needs. If you fill the gap with renewables then you don't have a pilotable grid and it becomes more and more unreliable. Germany had already seen this as it has to import (nuclear) power from it's neighbours, putting up prices for everyone else.
Nuclear is always on and pilotable. The only other such alternatives are fossil fuels.
@jmaris half the point of a sustainable energy transition is to reduce our energy needs, not increase them.
Germany seems to have increased its imports of renewables from other countries by the way, while nuclear imports have remained pretty much unchanged. Instead, they shut down 7 coal plants last year because they weren't needed.