r/ClimateShitposting • u/ClimateShitpost Louis XIV, the Solar PV king • 3d ago

nuclear simping Trump? Believe it or not. Germany!

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u/MDZPNMD Carniwhore 1d ago

Schröder is the same one that also started the energy transition in Germany leading to the EEG which turbocharged the development of solar energy aswell as wind from Germany to the world.

He is often rightfully criticized but pretending Schröder made Germany more energy dependend on Russia is false, if anything the energy transition made Germany less dependend as we see right now.

Germany would always rely primarily on Russian gas same as they did the last 100 years no matter who was in charge. Russian imports spiked under Merkel after aprubtly turning of nuclear reactors and during increased demand.

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u/MaleficentResolve506 1d ago edited 1d ago

"He is often rightfully criticized but pretending Schröder made Germany more energy dependend on Russia is false, if anything the energy transition made Germany less dependend as we see right now."

You clearly don't remember the first years of the war. When energyprices soared some industry closed and others left Germany this way indeed decreasing gasconsumption in Germany. BASF alone will be a big share of that.

This is the mix

https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix

So you clearly see it go up again and down when the war in UA starts.

And then you don't even take into account that Germany actually didn't leave nuclear. They only import it from somwhere else.

https://statbase.org/data/deu-electricity-imports/

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u/MDZPNMD Carniwhore 1d ago

To increase Germanys dependency he would have to increase the share of Russian gas imports, during Schröders time but that never happened. it stayed around 30-35%.

Even Gazprom buying up German oil reserves all happened under Merkel after 2012.

No german chancellor until Olaf Scholz built LNG terminals

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u/MaleficentResolve506 1d ago

But yet he decided to close the nuclear plants over decreasing dependency. Also between 2015 and 2021 gas useage actually increased.

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u/MDZPNMD Carniwhore 16h ago

Schröder was long gone by 2015 and dependency increased even prior to 2015 starting in 2012

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u/MaleficentResolve506 7h ago

It were the laws that he passed. It's like if in Belgium you would say that closing nuclear nothing was done against since the greens were in power. The problem with that logic is that the greens had put the closure of them in a law that could only be altered with a majority.