[rickdeckard]

actually mostly coal was used to fill the energy gap, increasing pressure to expand rollout of renewables. The media pitch making all this highly political is that fossil fuels from Russia should be / must be used instead of nuclear power, framing the choice to be either pro-Russia or pro-Nuclear (discarding renewables or potential pan-European energy coalitions).

In reality the impacts of the shutdown are foreseeable transitional pains. Of course Germany wasn't producing a massive surplus of energy that made it seamless to switch off their nuclear power-plants, so now they need to compensate the gap and make plans to close it.

Let's hope they're not all giving up again half-way thanks to politics and revert the decision...