A lot of articles about the closure of the last German nuclear power plants have emphasized the cost in carbon emissions of closing nuclear plants rather than coal (more precisely: lignite) plants: see for instance Jean-Marc Jancovici, the highly publicized French pundit. While I agree that Germany should have closed its lignite plants before its nuclear plants, the more important story here is that it has closed ‘reliable’ baseload plants and replaced them by “intermittent” renewables. And not on a … read more »
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