German emissions were at their lowest point in around 70 years, as Europe’s largest economy managed to reduce its dependence on coal faster than expected, a study published Thursday showed.
Europe’s biggest economy emitted 673 million tonnes of the greenhouse gases last year, 73 million tonnes fewer than in 2022, according to the energy think tank Agora Energiewende.
The figure was at its lowest point “since the 1950s”, Agora said in a statement, while warning that Germany had work to do to further reduce its emissions.
The drop was “largely attributable to a strong decrease in coal power generation”, Agora said.
Still 10 times higher than France. Nice try Germany.
While it is definitely not great that Germany left nuclear before coal, what is often lost in this debate is that it is not the result of uniquely bad decision making in Germany compared to France and other countries, but almost entirely a matter of coal reserves.
Coal is Germanys oil and it doesn’t exist everywhere. If France or Britain had similar reserves the situation would be different. Climate foresight has nothing to do with it
Third post I saw on this subreddit about how good German electricity production is in the last couple of days. What is going on?
Nice brigading germany 💩
I love such news… less coal burning… better air quality, viewer dependency on other countries and in the long run cheaper energy. Get it on Germany and Europe.
Yeah but still burning gas and raise the demand for gas worldwide and that feeds with money russian faschist. They should keep Nuclear at least 10 years until we transition to energy that doesn’t require burning stuff.
Some more renewables, more imports and a lot less overall electricity demand due to energy intensive industry shutting down.
Of course, Germans will just try to use this to deny how stupid shutting down their nuclear plants was.
.. because our industry is dying. how nice
What’s up with Reddit’s focus on German energy sources? A day cannot pass without an article like this. And it’s only Germany.
We have managed to fuck up the economy and energy prices , thats the biggest reason and you should be ashamed to be proud of that
Man I really wish that someone on Reddit would hijack this win to talk about nuclear energy /s
Yes because Germany now is importing a lot more electricity from other EU countries. Cant just look at one EU country because they are conncted and buy electicity from each ithers on the EU market.
While in China emissions sky rocket
Just because you washed a bit when you were disgusting for so long, doesn’t make you clean.
My question is rather different, why did electricity usage drop as much as it did in 2023?
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German emissions were at their lowest point in around 70 years, as Europe’s largest economy managed to reduce its dependence on coal faster than expected, a study published Thursday showed.
Europe’s biggest economy emitted 673 million tonnes of the greenhouse gases last year, 73 million tonnes fewer than in 2022, according to the energy think tank Agora Energiewende.
The figure was at its lowest point “since the 1950s”, Agora said in a statement, while warning that Germany had work to do to further reduce its emissions.
The drop was “largely attributable to a strong decrease in coal power generation”, Agora said.
Still 10 times higher than France. Nice try Germany.
While it is definitely not great that Germany left nuclear before coal, what is often lost in this debate is that it is not the result of uniquely bad decision making in Germany compared to France and other countries, but almost entirely a matter of coal reserves.
Look at this list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves
Coal is Germanys oil and it doesn’t exist everywhere. If France or Britain had similar reserves the situation would be different. Climate foresight has nothing to do with it
Third post I saw on this subreddit about how good German electricity production is in the last couple of days. What is going on?
Nice brigading germany 💩
I love such news… less coal burning… better air quality, viewer dependency on other countries and in the long run cheaper energy. Get it on Germany and Europe.
Yeah but still burning gas and raise the demand for gas worldwide and that feeds with money russian faschist. They should keep Nuclear at least 10 years until we transition to energy that doesn’t require burning stuff.
Some more renewables, more imports and a lot less overall electricity demand due to energy intensive industry shutting down.
Of course, Germans will just try to use this to deny how stupid shutting down their nuclear plants was.
.. because our industry is dying. how nice
What’s up with Reddit’s focus on German energy sources? A day cannot pass without an article like this. And it’s only Germany.
We have managed to fuck up the economy and energy prices , thats the biggest reason and you should be ashamed to be proud of that
Man I really wish that someone on Reddit would hijack this win to talk about nuclear energy /s
Yes because Germany now is importing a lot more electricity from other EU countries. Cant just look at one EU country because they are conncted and buy electicity from each ithers on the EU market.
While in China emissions sky rocket
Just because you washed a bit when you were disgusting for so long, doesn’t make you clean.
My question is rather different, why did electricity usage drop as much as it did in 2023?
In 2022, electricity generation was [491 TWh](https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/presseinformationen/2023/nettostromerzeugung-in-deutschland-2022-wind-und-photovoltaik-haben-deutlich-zugelegt.html), it was a mere [436 in 2023](https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/presseinformationen/2024/oeffentliche-stromerzeugung-2023-erneuerbare-energien-decken-erstmals-grossteil-des-stromverbrauchs/jcr:content/fixedContent/pressArticleParsys/wideimage/imageComponent/image.img.4col.jpg/1704275941354/oeff-Nettostromerzeugung.jpg)
It cannot have been imports seeing as net imports were only [8.6 TWh](https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/presseinformationen/2024/oeffentliche-stromerzeugung-2023-erneuerbare-energien-decken-erstmals-grossteil-des-stromverbrauchs/jcr:content/fixedContent/pressArticleParsys/textwithasset_1951850208/imageComponent/image.img.4col.large.jpg/1704208652012/Folie-11.jpg) in 2023. It seems like it could be deindustrialization which would be a bad new for german prosperity and perhaps even a bad one for the environment if the industry was delocalized abroad, in less environment-conscious countries.
The energy transition requires more electricity, not less. Despite the increase in renewables being a good new, it’s apparently [behind schedule by about 27 TWh](https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/376/bilder/abb1_entwicklung_der_stromerzeugung_aus_erneuerbaren_energien_2000_bis_2023.png).
It’s just not going fast enough.
Germany, I am not mad if you conquer my homeland to decarbonize it <3
didnt they fire up a few coal plants with the shut down of their nuclear plants?
I mean they shouldn’t even have started using it again and move away from Nuclear