German lawmakers back plan to expand renewable energy, setting a target of generating 80% of Germany’s gross electricity use from renewable energy by 2030
German lawmakers back plan to expand renewable energy, setting a target of generating 80% of Germany’s gross electricity use from renewable energy by 2030
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Just imagine steps like these would have been made 10 years ago… but no, “climate chancellor” Merkel prefared to kill off the german green energie sector and just do nothing.
I sincerely wish them to succeed.
(I wish they rather had a [gCO2/kWh](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ernx9iyXcAEjBmf?format=jpg&name=4096×4096) target though; apparently, when talking about electricity and climate change this is less a relevant metric than [% of whatever](https://i.redd.it/1j0qchu8bfu71.png))
But by the time they will have double their [48.6TWh](https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&interval=year&year=2021) of solar in 2021, they will have finally … get back to square one by recovering the [86.8TWh](https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&chartColumnSorting=default&interval=year&year=2015) they used to already produced with nuclear in 2015.
Unless they found a giant battery the size of a city buried below Bavaria, I don’t see renewables coming anywhere near 40% without nuclear.