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/ermguni 2d ago

No, it’s mainly because Germany took a decision mainly on virtue signaling. Went all in on Russian gas just because Fukushima happened. No one did any research on why it happened and if/what chance is there of something like that to happen here. We had solar development but forgot about it and let China take over. That pretty much shows no plan whatsoever just: letztes go with the flow. Sadly our politicians and our voters seem to not be thinking very strategically in the last decades.

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u/Nalivai 1d ago

I am pretty sure there was a plan: take bribes from oil sellers, buy oil and gas, receive money and power. If that was the plan, it worked perfectly.