[PaywallBuster]

renewables are not big enough in a huge industrial and developed country like Germany

Hysterical shutdown of nuclear plants following Fukushima lead to the gap being covered by fossil fuels

also while US have very cheap gas from the domestic industry, Europe is constrained by a couple of pipelines and shipments and market fluctuations, so it didn't replace coal

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

[VintageCool]

Your charts show lignite holding stable, hard coal declining, nuclear declining, natural gas increasing slightly, and renewables expanding tremendously.

Renewables provided 45% of Germany's power production in 2020, and 41% in 2021 H1.

[PaywallBuster]

I started writing the comment before looking at the chart

however

nuclear capacity fell by 8GW

natural gas grew by 4GW

and the charts only explain the capacity

unlikely the renewables can replace nuclear in that sense

of course, saying that the historical shutdown of nuclear was replaced by fossil fuels I mean in the same and following year.

If Germany keeps betting big on renewable after that and it's currently producing 41% it's a different story