Hannah Ritchie, "Data on the German retreat from nuclear energy tell a cautionary tale" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/10/germany-end-nuclear-cost-climate-health/

« [T]he fall in nuclear power has offset more than 70 percent of the energy Germany has added from renewables. Since 2010, renewables output has gone up by 145 terawatt-hours (TWh) — one terawatt-hour is the annual electricity use for around 140,000 Germans. Meanwhile nuclear energy production has gone down by 104 TWh and coal by just 82 TWh. So the nation’s net increase in low-carbon energy was just 41 TWh.

The counterfactual is sobering to crunch. Had Germany kept its nuclear plants running from 2010, it could have slashed its use of coal for electricity to 13 percent by now. Today’s figure is 31 percent. »

This is what happens when you have anti-nuclear fanatics in government.

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