https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/drop-coal-use-pushes-ge...
German electricity from coal is down 35% since 2010 and 46% since 2000:
https://www.bdew.de/media/documents/20191212-BRD_Stromerzeug...
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/drop-coal-use-pushes-ge...
German electricity from coal is down 35% since 2010 and 46% since 2000:
https://www.bdew.de/media/documents/20191212-BRD_Stromerzeug...
I remembered the “very steep decline in nuclear energy whilst fossil fuel kind a went down less”
So, yes: we are way down on coal.
Because of the intermittence problem, there is simply no chance that Germany can catch up with the best gCO2/kWh results (France and Nordic countries) without an hypothetical breakthrough in battery storage for renewables. Its electricity's carbon intensity is currently 5-10 times higher. Pretty much only Poland is doing worse.
The unflexibility of the nuclear reactors is also a problem to network operators, as is the intermittency of wind and solar.
1) Brokdorf was run in loading following mode as an experiment, but the reactor failed, and begun decommissioning early.