alt Hacker NewsThis is blatantly untrue: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/Fig2_Gro...
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ffsm8 • today at 11:33 AM
What was untrue specifically? I'm not sure what quoting the electricity by general source over the last decades disproves.
Did you read something into spwas comment he didn't actually say?
Correct;
On July 9, 2026, the Bundestag passed Germany's new electricity-capacity law, which subsidizes reserve/dispatchable power capacity as coal is phased out. SPD and CDU/CSU voted for it; the Greens and Die Linke voted against it.
The Greens specifically argued against a long-term fossil-fuel lock-in, while Die Linke argued for renewables and batteries instead of subsidizing new fossil gas plants.
The law itself is primarily about new hydrogen-ready/gas-capable reserve plants, not coal plants.
Source: https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-07/kraftwerksge...