“To mainstream renewable energy, Germany shut down its last three nuclear power plants in 2023. Just three years later, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told business leaders it was a ‘serious strategic mistake,’ and the country will rebuild nuclear production….Germany’s energy-production decline accelerated in 2000, as the country began dropping its coal and oil production. By 2024, renewables made up around 65% of the country’s domestic energy…And while their carbon emissions have dropped at least 32% since 2000, Germany ‘simply doesn’t have enough energy-generation capacity,’ Merz said.”
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