It's time for Germany to admit its mistake on nuclear energy (2024)

> At its peak in 2000, the nuclear sector provided 30% of electricity nearly emission free. Renewables supplied only 6.3% at the time. As nuclear fell away, Germany’s coal plants filled the void — the majority being fired by brown coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel of them all. This autumn, Germany produced nearly 30% of its electricity that way.

German coal was 50% in 2000 and down to 22% for the full year in 2024. It seems they peaked at 26.5% in October that year.

Wild that they need to torture the statistics so much to try to support their point.

What really "filled the void" and more was deploying what is now 15% solar, 28% wind. That's rising from 0 and 1.5% in 2000 (the rest of the 6.3% renewables in 2000 they refer to seems to have been hydro and bioenergy).

Some people are never going to forgive Germany for kicking off the solar revolution.

Oh, and 50% of gas in Germany goes to heating and 30% to industry.

If you find someone supporting nuclear and hating heat pumps and EVs, then dependence on Russian gas is not the reason.

Well, they might be trying to increase dependence on it.

You can also blame all of the activists from the 70s and 80s that were against Nuclear energy and created a situation now where it's still very expensive and we haven't had the decades of innovation we should have to reduce the costs and make it more abundant.