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eigenspacetoday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

Renewables are replacing coal and nuclear simultaneously. Coal usage was consistently dropping before and continued to consistently drop after the nuclear phase out.

I agree if coal was banned before nuclear, the new renewable capcacity added could have done more to replace a huge source of emissions faster. It was a failure of education, media, and political will that Germany phased out nuclear before coal.

That does not however mean that coal usage increased after nuclear was phased out, such a claim is just false.


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astrobe_today at 6:23 PM

According to [1], around 2022 nuclear was shut down, coal/lignite increased, imports increased, and consumption decreased - if I interpret those charts correctly.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

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