[RNAlfons]

> Even now France's nuclear provides more energy than anything it has, and France routinely exports energy to Germany who have shattered their nuclear power plants and are now busy burning coal and importing electricity to cover the needs.

Adding to what cycomanic wrote already:

Germany has replaced what it lost on the nuclear shutdown with renewables years ago. They also reduced coal and even have a law to phase it out completely. The fact that Germany imported nuclear power doesn't say anything about the fact that they HAD to import it. Just like anyone connected to the grid, they buy when it's cheap and sell when it's expensive. Due to Germany's mix they're flexible there while France has to keep on running and selling as much as they can since they're losing money. See EDF.

[troupo]

> Germany has replaced what it lost on the nuclear shutdown with renewables years ago.

Funny how today they were burning 20GW of coal because they replaced 20GW of nuclear power with renewables.

> The fact that Germany imported nuclear power doesn't say anything about the fact that they HAD to import it.

Of course they had to. Because they don't have enough energy generation of their own when the day is like today: cloudy and quiet.

[RNAlfons]

> Funny how today they were burning 20GW of coal because they replaced 20GW of nuclear power with renewables.

This is a lie.

Germany has been reducing coal and will keep on doing so until there is none. It's a law.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag...

> Of course they had to. Because they don't have enough energy generation of their own when the day is like today: cloudy and quiet.

This is a lie also.

Germany is an energy export nation since 2002 even with the EEX trading you probably never heard of. https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/153533/umfrag...

Funny indeed...

[troupo]

> This is a lie.

They were literally burning 20GW of coal yesterday because the 200% overprovisioned renewables were producing only 15% of their maximum output

[RNAlfons]

Overprovisioned renewables? Hilarious sentence :D

As I have said: the transformation is not finished yet. Germany did almost nothing during Merkels time and renewables have still generated more than they lost due to the shutdown of nuclear.

Meaning: Germany would STILL burn coal even if they'd have kept nuclear.

It's not that hard to understand if you know the facts and the facts are that Germany has a law to phase out coal completely while expanding renewables. A law which few (no other?) countries even have. Even France will keep on burning coal when the last plant is closed in Germany.