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by troupo 1041 days ago
> And more than compensated their nuclear plants

The moment they shut down their last nuclear plant they had several quiet nice in a row. The total output of renewables was about 4% of the installed capacity.

So Germany had to burn copious amount of coal, and gas, and buy energy from France

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For those downvoting:

Right now, as I write this, in Germany:

- Wind: 66.5 GW installed capacity. Generation: 1.82 GW, or 2.74% of that

- Solar: 69.1 GW of installed capacity. Generation: 0.38 GW, or 0.55% of that

- Hydro: 9.78 GW of installed capacity. Generation: 3.09 GW, or 31% of that

So Germany is busy burning gas (generation: 7.6 GW), coal (generation: 14.2 GW), and "bio fuels" (generation: 5 GW), and importing electricity from as far away as Norway