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No, they did not. They wanted to phase out coal and nuclear via renewables (including a lot of money for power-to-gas development, just like they spend a lot to develop renewables in the first place) and instead conservatives ran with the nuclear phase out and renewable upbuild. But they let the people pay for the renewable with extra taxes while at the same time subsidising coal and sabotaging all grid expansions to keep renewables in check (also no storage or power-to-gas plans of course, in fact they prevented storage through insane double taxation where a battery operator would be fully takes as a consumer while loading and then again as a producer when unloading). And when renewables took off anyway they still intensified the sabotage and managed to kill the German solar industry and most of the wind industry (~200000 jobs gone to protect about 5000 coal miners... no just joking - they were protecting their rich buddies investments in coal of course and gave a fuck about workers).
The exakt same people that killed nuclear and sabotaged renewables to keep coal relevant are now telling you how renewables are such a failure (and far too expensive) and we should really build some new nuclear. All so they can keep burning more fossil fuels.
And people are still failing for this idiotic fairy tale.
(PS: unrelated fun fact... the framing is also bullshit. The conservative morons back in office did not have enough time yet to crush renewables again. The slight drop in renewables is from 2025 being the worst year in regard to weather in decades. Wíth the same weather of 2024 they would sit far above 70 renewables now.
But of course the propaganda will continue... and when they just lie long enough people may in a few years just accept (and expect) renewable fails again when the retard policies start to strike again...)