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energy-charts.info provides a great overview over electricity generation by sector, renewable share and a lot of other data on the German electricity network. They also provide estimates for the next few hours and scenarios how the electricity network could look like in a few decades.
This had me scratching my head for a minute, wondering why there was so much whitespace between the Load curve and the total energy generated. I can't imagine Germany having nightly rolling blackouts to accommodate a shortfall in generated energy. Then I realized several categories in the legend that are not shown on the chart.
I assume it's merely that they import energy from neighbours.
Here's a map of who exported electricity in Europe in 2022, and who imported: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/EU-Interconnector-Map-H2-2022.jpg
Very unfortunate that they don't have nuclear power anymore
True, although in recent years nuclear didn't have a very significant effect on the total energy production anymore as most reactors had already been taken offline. It was just a few percent.
Yeah they just closed their last one down not too long ago. Wish they didn't do that. Now they're reliant on fossil fuels
