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G7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 years (theprogressplaybook.com)
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[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sucks for Germany and their recent resurgence of coal plants and decommissioning of nuclear.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

With resurgence you mean 33.2% drop in electricity generation from coal between 2022 and 2023 and shutting down 15 coal power plants this year already? Cause that is what is actually happening.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The following list is only the first three pages of a Lemmy search for germany coal:

So yeah, feel free to continue down-voting I guess, but based on what I had to go on, my comment was at least made in good faith.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The list includes:

The reason for that is a bunch of coal power plants being kept on the grid to keep the grid stable due to a cut of gas supply from Russia. However a fairly large drop in general electricity consumption, meant that coal electricity generation dropped massively. Also 8 wind turbines are a rounding error for a country like Germany and are easily made up for with new ones built in other locations. So as the Guardian states in the first link:

while coal’s share dropped to 26% from 34%, according to the federal network agency.

[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

There's also this video from Kurzgesagt (at the 7:56 mark), which oddly enough came up in a playlist and had data that was relevant to a conversation on Lemmy. Of course, the date of the video doesn't accurately portray what is truly happening, as your figures are obviously newer. I stand corrected.

For the record, I wasn't doggin' on Germany. It's one of the European countries I really want to visit before I log out of life. I took German 101+ in JH/HS, though that was almost 2-decades ago by now. I hope you can see, now, why I had the thoughts I did about Germany's energy foresight. Take it easy!

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