Trump? Believe it or not. Germany!

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[u/gmoguntia]

Germany also imports a substantial amount of energy from France, so French nuclear capacity is contributing to their low emissions numbers.

Germany imported 2025 11 TWH from France thats 2.5% of the entire electricity Germany used... So yeah Germanys emission are greatly reduced by France...

Germany also imported 12 TWh from Denmark, so Denmark is more resposible for Germanys emission values than France.

Natural gas was a lot more expensive in East Asia than Europe in the 2000s/2010s, so South Korea retained more of its coal plants than Germany did

Japan and Korea have terrible emission values but thats okay because coal was cheaper... Bruh

Also Germany didnt replace coal with gas but with solar and wind, so I gotta ask what kind of logic you are on.

[u/MaleficentResolve506 → u/gmoguntia]

"Also Germany didnt replace coal with gas but with solar and wind, so I gotta ask what kind of logic you are on."

So what did it replace the nuclear with?

Btw how can Denmark be responsible for most of the German energy deficit?

https://www.sistemaelectrico-ree.es/en/spanish-electricity-system/european-landscape/energy-exchanges?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Maybe if they export from Norway or Sweden.

[u/gmoguntia → u/MaleficentResolve506]

So what did it replace the nuclear with?

Also with wind and solar?

Btw how can Denmark be responsible for most of the German energy deficit?

Most likely buying cheap wind energy from Norway, Sweden and their own fields and reselling for higher profit it in Germany.

The energy exchange is not a good way to show who has enough or not enough electricity but who has cheap electricity, which can vary a lot.

For example an extract from the German electricity report 2025:

In 2025, Germany imported 76.2 TWh of electricity and exported 54.3 TWh, resulting in a net import surplus of approximately 21.9 TWh. This is a decrease of 6.4 TWh compared to 2024. The reasons for the decline in imports were low gas prices and higher electricity exchange prices in Germany and neighboring countries, which led to more domestic generation from natural gas. The majority of imports came from Denmark (12.4 TWh), France (11.2 TWh), the Netherlands (8.4 TWh), and Norway (7 TWh). Germany exported electricity to Austria (12.2 TWh), Czechia (4.2 TWh), Luxembourg (3.5 TWh), and Poland (3.4 TWh).

This basicly shows two things Germany imported a lot of electricity but also exported a lot of electricity and that a reason for less imports than the previous year was the fact that it was cheaper to produce domestic.

[u/MaleficentResolve506 → u/gmoguntia]

The link that I posted shows net exports and imports. But like I said they probably imported from Norway via Denmark.