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by The_Double 1414 days ago
> they are currently replacing coal power at a greater rate then France, despite Germany actively shutting down nuclear plants that still had years of life left.

That sounds a less impressive when you rephrase it as saying they went from 15x more coal use than france to 9x as much. Percentage wise the decrease seems similar in the last few years.

source: https://www.iea.org/countries/france https://www.iea.org/countries/germany