henrihorn, 2 months ago to random

Germany hasn't increased #Lignite use after phasing out nuclear. In fact, lignite mining is now as low as in 1920's.

https://mastodon.green/@VQuaschning/112009261005651403

EU_Commission, 4 months ago to random

Share of energy from renewable sources in 2022 (%):

🇸🇪 66 🇫🇮 47.9 🇱🇻 43.3 🇩🇰 41.6
🇪🇪 38.5 🇵🇹 34.7 🇦🇹 33.8 🇱🇹 29.6
🇭🇷 29.4 🇷🇴 24.1 🇪🇺 23 🇸🇮 22.9
🇬🇷 22.7 🇪🇸 22.1 🇩🇪 20.8 🇫🇷 20.3 🇨🇾 19.4 🇧🇬 19.1 🇮🇹 19 🇨🇿 18.2
🇸🇰 17.5 🇵🇱 16.9 🇭🇺 15.2 🇳🇱 15
🇱🇺 14.4 🇧🇪 13.8 🇲🇹 13.4 🇮🇪 13.1

This is the way to go, but we must accelerate to meet our 2030 renewable energy target of at least 42.5%.

To achieve it – among others – we sped up permitting procedures for projects on renewable energy and proposed a Wind Power Action Plan.

jmaris, 5 months ago to Germany

If #Germany had kept its 2021 #nuclear capacity, it would have been able to shut down all its #=coal-fired power stations and part of its #gas-fired ones. With the nuclear capacity of 2017, #lignite (which is even dirtier than coal) could have been eliminated.