[cygx]

Germany has actually slightly increased its gas usage - though compared to other energy sources, its currently more of a rounding error in magnitude:

                    2002    2018

    Total            503     545

    Coal+Oil         253     205
    Nuclear          156      72

    Gas               40      44
    Biomass            4      45

    Wind+Solar+Hydro  39     177

    Other             10       3

https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...

[brazzy]

More significantly, the increase in gas is more than offset by a decrease in coal and oil.

[jhayward]

Right. Quantitatively:

Coal declined by 48 TWh

Gas increased by 4 TWh.

Nuclear declined by 84 TWh.

Renewables picked up the slack by adding 130 TWh of generation.