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> Funny how today they were burning 20GW of coal because they replaced 20GW of nuclear power with renewables. This is a lie. Germany has been reducing coal an

> Funny how today they were burning 20GW of coal because they replaced 20GW of nuclear power with renewables. This is a lie. Germany has been reducing coal and will keep on doing so until there is none. It's a law. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrage/brutto-stromerzeugung-in-deutschland-nach-energietraegern-seit-2007/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag... > Of course they had to. Because they don't have enough energy generation of their own when the day is like today: cloudy and quiet. This is a lie also. Germany is an energy export nation since 2002 even with the EEX trading you probably never heard of. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrage/stromimportsaldo-von-deutschland-seit-1990/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag... Funny indeed...

troupo 3y ago
> This is a lie. They were literally burning 20GW of coal yesterday because the 200% overprovisioned renewables were producing only 15% of their maximum output
- RNAlfons 3y ago
  Overprovisioned renewables? Hilarious sentence :D As I have said: the transformation is not finished yet. Germany did almost nothing during Merkels time and renewables have still generated more than they lost due to the shutdown of nuclear. Meaning: Germany would STILL burn coal even if they'd have kept nuclear. It's not that hard to understand if you know the facts and the facts are that Germany has a law to phase out coal completely while expanding renewables. A law which few (no other?) countries even have. Even France will keep on burning coal when the last plant is closed in Germany.