Posts with the tag "Energiewende"

On April 15, Germany prematurely shut down the last three of its nuclear reactors. In response, Nobel laureates and leading scientists from around the world urgently appealed to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to reconsider the decision. Among the signatories to the appeal in France were climatologists François-Marie Bréon, a researcher at the IPSL Climate and…

On December 31, Germany definitively shut down three fully operational nuclear reactors, representing 4 GW of low-carbon, cheap and controllable electricity production capacity, in the midst of a climate and energy crisis. If its leaders considered that the electricity grid of the country and its neighbors could afford the closure of three additional controllable plants,…