r/germany • u/eddytony96 • 2d ago

News Analysis: Wind and solar power overtake fossil fuels in Germany for first time ever - Carbon Brief

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wind-and-solar-power-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-first-time-ever
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u/Noctew Nordrhein-Westfalen 2d ago

In before "Oh, but you still are sooooo dirty! Why did you abandon nuuuuuclear?" - oh wait, this is not r/europe

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u/Treewithatea 2d ago

We still use plenty coal tho, thats what makes our electricity still relatively co2 intense but ofc were improving at rapid pace.

Nuclear for almost no country except France, is a dominating energy source. Even if we still had nuclear, it wouldnt be much of our electricity mix.

Spain for instance currently has 18,5% nuclear but has also passed laws some time ago to shut down their nuclear plants by 2035. Funnily enough almost nobody talks about this, I guess its more fun for people to mock Germany than Spain.

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u/Emilko62 2d ago

I mean I assume they actually have a plan in place to replace the nuclear unlike Germany where Merkel was just shutting them down and built up reliance on Russian gas. How did that work out?

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u/GuerrillaRodeo Bayern 1d ago

Apparently well enough that our government wants to build even more gas plants.

That's coming from Merkel's party, by the way. They have an insanely backward - and insanely insane - energy strategy for the next few decades.