I don't know what Wiki says, but this here[0] says that right now, Germany is both producing one of the dirtiest electricity in Europe, all while still importing over 1GW.
Germany has been a large net exporter of electricity for years. 18.9 TWh in 2020. Of that 52.5 TWh were exports and 33.6 TWh were imports.
What you may have missed is: Germany is in the middle of Europe surrounded with a bunch of neighbor countries. Most of them are in the European Union which worked for years on building a joint energy market. Thus various electricity exports and imports are NORMAL. Note also that electricity may travel through more than one country in Europe.
Germany imports huge amounts of energy from other countries, given that it doesn't have much own resources of Gas, Oil, Uranium - it has some coal, though. Coal, too is imported.
Exchanging electricity with other countries will increase massively. In my region there is now a 1 GW power line to Norway to exchange electricity both ways.
Another example: Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium are investing 135 Billion Euros in a joint offshore wind project.
> Most of them are in the European Union which worked for years on building a joint energy market.
Germany and Austria severed their single electricity pricing zone in October 2018[0]. "Slow grid expansion" was identified as one of the major factors in this decision.
The demand for the grid expansion in Germany is due to increased need of transferring wind electricity from North Germany to Mid and South Germany. Germany has a large change where the energy producers will be. Handling this will take many years.
> Germany has been a large net exporter of electricity for years. 18.9 TWh
It does not mean anything if they can't decide when they export it.
Waht matters though, is that most of the time their electricity has an awful carbon footprint w.r.t what the wealthiest country in Europe should afford. All the rest is but mental gymnastics to try to justify that.
> It does not mean anything if they can't decide when they export it.
That makes no sense. The market (demand & supply) decides. The static model is long past.
> Waht matters though, is that most of the time their electricity has an awful carbon footprint w.r.t what the wealthiest country in Europe should afford.
Germany isn't the wealthiest country in Europe. That it has more inhabitants than, for example Norway, does not make the average German richer.
> That makes no sense. The market (demand & supply) decides. The static model is long past.
Indeed, the supply. And what is the very charateristic of Germany's renewable supply? That they do not have any inluence of it. They have to sell when the weather is sunny and windy, and have to buy or burn coal otherwise.
> does not make the average German richer.
That does not really matter, as the average German does not pay for a nuke plant; the federal goverment does.
> What really matters is that the we move fast to renewable energy.
What really matters is that we move fast to low-carbon energy; renewable is the cherry on the cake.
[0] https://app.electricitymap.org/map