{"id":27911,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2015\/02\/04\/germany-replaces-nuclear-with-coal-ghgs-skyrocket\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:41:10","slug":"germany-replaces-nuclear-with-coal-ghgs-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2015\/02\/04\/germany-replaces-nuclear-with-coal-ghgs-skyrocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Replaces Nuclear with Coal, GHGs Skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"German<\/p>\n

By Romeo St-Martin<\/strong>
\nCommunications\u00a0Officer<\/em>
\nCanadian Nuclear Association<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2011, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a plan to close all of the country\u2019s 17 nuclear plants by 2022 and to generate 80 percent of Germany\u2019s electricity from renewables by 2050.<\/p>\n

Many environmentalists and anti-nuclear types viewed this Energiewende (\u201cenergy transition\u201d) as good news.<\/p>\n

But Germany’s green Energiewende is producing one big not-so-green result – a return to coal.<\/p>\n

Replacing nuclear power quickly with renewable energy has proven difficult, mainly due to renewable energy\u2019s primary weakness \u2013 intermittency.<\/p>\n

The sun does not always shine, and the wind does not always blow. When wind and solar are not available to generate electricity, power buyers need another source. For Germany, that means more coal.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Germany\u2019s electrical production required a 44 percent rise in coal power. In fact, coal represented 45.5 percent of Germany\u2019s power output, its highest level in 20 years.<\/p>\n

Expect those numbers to rise, because Germany is building more coal plants, and expanding old mines. Progressive publications have taken notice. Mother Jones recently ran a profile<\/a> of a German town first settled in Roman times that faced the threat of being bulldozed aside to make room for an open-pit coal mine.<\/p>\n

While German greenhouse gas emissions fell between 1990 and 2010, they have risen since the chancellor\u2019s 2011 announcement. This places Germany out of step with the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the European Union. Both are demanding drastic GHG cuts in order to prevent severe climate change.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Germany\u2019s carbon emissions rose 1.8 percent, while European Union emissions fell 1.3 percent.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, The Economist described the Energiewende<\/a> as more like \u201ca marketing slogan than a coherent policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Energiewende hasn\u2019t only increased the amount of atmospheric carbon Germany is producing. It\u2019s increasing consumers\u2019 power bills.<\/p>\n

The annual increase in residential electricity rates has accelerated since 2011 when the Energiewende went full throttle. The annual increase is now seven percent, compared with 4.3 percent between 2005 and 2010, according to Eurostat.<\/p>\n

The long-term results of the Energiewende experiment are not known. For now it stands as a cautionary tale for governments thinking about replacing low-carbon nuclear energy with carbon-creating fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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