Germany's Nuclear Phase Out Delayed its Coal Exit by 8 Years
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Germany's Nuclear Phase Out Delayed its Coal Exit by 8 Years
Graph of the Week #4
This year, German will shutter is last operating nuclear power plants.. The current coalition government has targeted 2030 for exiting coal consumption. The graph above, using data from BP, shows that peak nuclear power consumption in Germany (in 2001) was just about the same as remaining coal generation in 2020. What this means is that had Germany kept its nuclear plants running at 2001 levels, its coal exit could have occurred in 2022, rather than 2030.
Germany's Nuclear Phase Out Delayed its Coal Exit by 8 Years
There is no concrete plan to exit coal in 2030. The current plan is for 2038, which may be moved up to 2035. This means that nuclear phase-out delayed coal exit by 13-16 years
Former Chancellor Merkel determined to to shut down he countries most important source of non fossil fuel energy because a tsunami in Japan destroyed a nuclear complex there. There are not, nor will there ever be, tsunamis in Germany.
What was she thinking?