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That article is from May 2013, last updated somewhere in 2017 and mostly contains graphs up to 2014, with very few exceptions going to 2016.

Which makes me think it fails to paint the whole picture, given the events in the following decade. In all dimensions. Be it nuclear phase out, be it geopolitical changes and instability because of war and broken supply chains, be it coal and climate, or the blow-up of Northstream and switching to LNG, be it extension of wind and solar...

Sorry, but mostly useless pretty pictures, considering all the changes that happened meanwhile.



What changes happened? Can you be more specific?

All I can see is:

Russia invaded Ukraine, the great German idea of relying on Russian gas to manage the intermitent nature of Energiewende dreams went down the drain.

Even more coal and lignite were dug up, more burnt ashes with plenty of radioactive particles were put in German air for all to inhale.

LNG terminals were built to import x3 price American shale gas, making our collective CO2 blanket even thicker...


Well...for one I'm missing the changing proportions of wind and solar in relation to gas/oil/nuclear. That has changed, and not in small parts.

No matter how you see it, the picture is incomplete then, not up to date. That's not a good base for discussion.




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