<story><title>Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-is-closing-half-of-its-reactors-at-worst-possible-time-1.1698757</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barney54</author><text>6. Wholesale electricity rates have increased from 50 Euros&amp;#x2F;mwh to 250 Euros&amp;#x2F;mwh over the course of the last year.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t about averages. It&amp;#x27;s about meeting demand, which is especially important during the winter heating season.</text></item><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>So, to summarize,&lt;p&gt;1. Germany is a net exporter&lt;p&gt;2. Germany has reduced the production from fossil fuels from about 70% to about 37% within 30 years.&lt;p&gt;3. At the same time it cut nuclear power from around 28% to about 10.&lt;p&gt;4. It looks like without reducing nuclear power it could have replaced the equivalent amount of fossil fuels (achieving less than 20% fossil fuels by 2020). However, energy consumption has also gone up since 1990, so it would have required building more reactors.&lt;p&gt;5. Renewables have replaced about 25% of energy production in the last 10 years.</text></item><item><author>fsh</author><text>I am afraid this thread is going to be heavy on strongly held opinions and very light on facts and figures. In a futile attempt to compensate, here is the history of gross electricity production in Germany [1]. And here is the electricity import&amp;#x2F;export statistics [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Energymix_Germany.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Energymi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bmwi.de&amp;#x2F;Redaktion&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;Infografiken&amp;#x2F;Energie&amp;#x2F;stromaustausch-mit-nachbarlaendern.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bmwi.de&amp;#x2F;Redaktion&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;Infografiken&amp;#x2F;Energie&amp;#x2F;stroma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>7. Energy per capita has dropped by something like 20% from its peak in the 90s.&lt;p&gt;Germany is a great example that these renewable policies can&amp;#x27;t sustain an industrial lifestyle. Germany is something of a cautionary tale; adopting Germany&amp;#x27;s policies will make people worse off.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;energy&amp;#x2F;country&amp;#x2F;germany&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ourworldindata.org&amp;#x2F;energy&amp;#x2F;country&amp;#x2F;germany&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year</title><url>https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/germany-is-closing-half-of-its-reactors-at-worst-possible-time-1.1698757</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barney54</author><text>6. Wholesale electricity rates have increased from 50 Euros&amp;#x2F;mwh to 250 Euros&amp;#x2F;mwh over the course of the last year.&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#x27;t about averages. It&amp;#x27;s about meeting demand, which is especially important during the winter heating season.</text></item><item><author>cmarschner</author><text>So, to summarize,&lt;p&gt;1. Germany is a net exporter&lt;p&gt;2. Germany has reduced the production from fossil fuels from about 70% to about 37% within 30 years.&lt;p&gt;3. At the same time it cut nuclear power from around 28% to about 10.&lt;p&gt;4. It looks like without reducing nuclear power it could have replaced the equivalent amount of fossil fuels (achieving less than 20% fossil fuels by 2020). However, energy consumption has also gone up since 1990, so it would have required building more reactors.&lt;p&gt;5. Renewables have replaced about 25% of energy production in the last 10 years.</text></item><item><author>fsh</author><text>I am afraid this thread is going to be heavy on strongly held opinions and very light on facts and figures. In a futile attempt to compensate, here is the history of gross electricity production in Germany [1]. And here is the electricity import&amp;#x2F;export statistics [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Energymix_Germany.svg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;upload.wikimedia.org&amp;#x2F;wikipedia&amp;#x2F;commons&amp;#x2F;3&amp;#x2F;3b&amp;#x2F;Energymi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bmwi.de&amp;#x2F;Redaktion&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;Infografiken&amp;#x2F;Energie&amp;#x2F;stromaustausch-mit-nachbarlaendern.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bmwi.de&amp;#x2F;Redaktion&amp;#x2F;DE&amp;#x2F;Infografiken&amp;#x2F;Energie&amp;#x2F;stroma...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>formerly_proven</author><text>Electric heating is extremely uncommon in Germany (like 1-2 % of households use it).</text></comment>