Chief columnist of Germany’s Die Zeit weekly, Theo Sommer, writes that on the one hand, renewables will not provide more than 65% of the national energy mix by 2030; on the other hand, the Greens’ drive to already have a total exit from coal by that same year, combined with the planned exit from nuclear by the end of 2022, will leave an energy-production gap of 40%. These are figures from a survey conducted by Siemens Energy. The only way out is to decide that the six remaining nuclear power plants which now provide 12% of the national energy mix, get the license to run beyond the presently planned exit. Germany has up to this time executed 11 of its 17 nuclear power plants. Three of the remaining six are scheduled to die this year.
Sommer also mentions that 28 states internationally want to enter the nuclear power era, and that worldwide, 400 nuclear power plants exist today. That should suffice to make the decision-makers in Germany rethink their energy plans.
