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by haconBagrid 616 days ago
And here we can see how their electricity generation has fallen

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...

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And in France:

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR...

Note that France has lost more nuclear generation than Germany over this period.

Good news; France’s nuclear output is forecast to bounce back to the 340-365TWh range this year.

https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journ...

Where are all those rolling blackouts we've been promised by the fearmongering of the nuclear-astroturf? Weird eh?

Maybe it's not always clever to use US-logic on the rest of the world.

Germany is not Texas.

Texas, where new nuclear has been dead in the water for years.

> “The cost of new nuclear is prohibitive for us to be investing in,” says Crane. Exelon considered building two new reactors in Texas in 2005, he says, when gas prices were $8/MMBtu and were projected to rise to $13/MMBtu. At that price, the project would have been viable with a CO2 tax of $25 per ton. “We’re sitting here trading 2019 gas at $2.90 per MMBtu,” he says; for new nuclear power to be competitive at that price, a CO2 tax “would be $300–$400.” Exelon currently is placing its bets instead on advances in energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies.

(passage from Dec. 2018 Physics Today; Texas natural gas is even cheaper than that now)

Texas, albeit culturally/politically swimming in fossil fuel, pushes hard towards renewables: https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/fiscal-notes/infrastru...
The point is it’s not the technology that is the issue in Texas - it’s unhinged turbo capitalism
It's a system where it's more difficult for utilities to ram through uncompetitive capital intensive projects by way of capture of the state regulatory agencies. If that's "unhinged", hinge-ness is overrated.
it didn't happen because germany increased imports by a lot. 20TWh this year so far
Nearly each and every nation imports and exports, in order to optimize (better import low-cost or low-emission electricity than locally generate it thanks to some expensive and dirty plant).

The yearly balance (imports - exports) is key.

I meant net imports. France alone net exported to Germany 11TWh from those 20
Uh?

2023 (last full year): 9.34 / 8.92

Source: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=...

I may be wrong, but this year = 2024, not 2023. Per your source: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.htm?l=...