GERMAN
NUCLEAR
POWER
ELECTRIC
POWER
PLANS:
The Fukushima nuclear
power plant disaster
in Japan in 2011
was caused by an
earthquake tidal wave.
Not something
expected to happen
in Germany
But Germany
responded anyway.
Europe’s
largest
economy
ordered
the immediate
shutdown of
8 of its 17
nuclear reactors,
and
plans to stop
all nuclear powered
electricity generation
by 2022.
Germany has been
following their plan
-- nuclear electricity
generation has been
declining with the
plant shutdowns.
Electricity production
from renewable sources
has been rising.
Power company EnBW
announced it would take
the Philippsburg 2 reactor
off the grid at 7 p.m.
on New Year’s Eve.
And they did.
That reactor was near
the city of Karlsruhe,
in southwestern Germany,
and had provided
electricity for 35 years.
The Philippsburg 1 reactor,
opened in 1979, had been
taken offline in 2011.
After Philippsburg 2 closed,
Germany had six more
nuclear power plants
to be closed by
the end of 2022.
GERMAN
COAL
ELECTRIC
POWER
PLANS:
Germany has
a vast coal industry
-- coal, hard coal,
and lignite currently
provide around 35%
of electric power.
In January 2019,
a government
-appointed
commission
proposed
shutting
all 84 coal-fired
power plants
by 2038, to cut
CO2 emissions.
Germany has
a longer timetable
for phasing out
coal than the UK,
and Italy, who both
plan to shut all their
coal plants by 2025,
rather than 2038.
The German
coal phase out
will take
much longer
because Germany
is shutting down
all of its clean
energy nuclear
power plants !
Closing all
nuclear reactors
by the end of 2022,
means Germany
needs to retain
half of its coal-fired
power generation
until 2030
... to offset
the nuclear
phase-out,
German Economy
and Energy Minister
Peter Altmaier said,
in 2019.
Does closing
"clean" nuclear
electric power
plants quickly,
causing a delay
in closures of
"dirty" coal
power plants,
make any sense ?
Of course not !
That's a stupid
energy plan
for Germany !