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Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
Which largely spiked due to high fossil fuel prices. Prematurely shutting down nuclear looks like a dumb decision, but Germany has been mismanaging their electric grid for decades.
Germany be like - let's do exactly opposite of what makes sense in today's world Green party is really ruining and I'm amazed people still give them votes
The thing is, this was a widely supported decision that has by and large gone through without a lot of opposition in a country that reliably votes for conservatives and moderates to lead them. Also, none of the bad stuff that people predicted would happen has actually happened. No blackouts. No massive increase in coal/gas usage. None of that seems to be happening.
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Which largely spiked due to high fossil fuel prices. Prematurely shutting down nuclear looks like a dumb decision, but Germany has been mismanaging their electric grid for decades.
They had one of the most expensive electricity before the war.
Switching back to coal, great move.
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Which largely spiked due to high fossil fuel prices. Prematurely shutting down nuclear looks like a dumb decision, but Germany has been mismanaging their electric grid for decades.
They had one of the most expensive electricity before the war.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267541/germany-monthly-...
Part of this discrepancy was them paying off an extremely premature investment in PV solar in attempt to kick start domestic production. Back in 2009 they setup 39 euro cents/kWh feed in tariffs for solar. Those subsidies where quickly cut on new installations but as I understand it they are still paying it on those early installs. The good news is those will be expiring fairly soon and arguably those initial investments are paying dividends in current rock bottom prices for new installations.
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They are probably being downvoted because they are pinning the decisions lead by CDU on the Green party. If they didn't misrepresent the situation they most likely would not get downvoted. Funny how that works, no?
The CDU may have made the decision but the Greens were in favor of it, were they not?
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Good politicians deliver the end goal people want (e.g. cheap and clean electricity), in the best way scientifically possible, then convince their base their method was the right decision. Bad politicians ask people how they should do a thing, then do that thing. It's been awhile since Germany has had good politicians where energy is concerned.
That same logic lead to gas pipelines with Russia and Russia blackmailing Germany
Then they did away with a big component of "Plan A" in nuclear after Fukushima, which promoted Russian gas to an essential component of their transition energy mix.
At the end of the day, if Germany hadn't stopped building nuclear or decommissioned reactors, Ukraine probably wouldn't have been invaded.