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The biggest problem regarding electricity costs in Germany is the fact it has too many underutilized power plants. 28GW of mostly unused gas plants that could have reduced CO2 emissions years ago. Meanwhile coal workers have to be protected just like in the US and therefore 46GW of coal capacity gets used instead to make sure coal towns don't disappear.

When you look at this turning off 10GW of nuclear starts to make sense, it's expensive, there are no suitable storage sites in Germany, people don't like it and finally: Germany doesn't need it because it has too much anyway. The dark side is that coal gets to live another day because nobody wants to be personally responsible for the loss of thousands of jobs.