Let's not argue semantics. Building new plants, extending existing ones, digging more coal or importing it from abroad.

It's all the same. "Green" energy failed, even for one of its biggest proponents.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...

> In the first half of 2021, coal shot up as the biggest contributor to Germany's electric grid, while wind power dropped to its lowest level since 2018.

Your definition of failure is a funny one. So renewables are now consistently supplying 20-30% of Germanys electricity despite decades of efforts by the fossil and nuclear lobby, which essentially destroyed Germanys wind and solar industry (which was world leading).

Nuclear on the other hand which, if you read what proponents said in the 50s, 60s and 70s, was going to give us unlimited free energy, is somehow deemed a success?

Now that renewables are essentially eating fossils and nuclears lunch we are supposed to believe that some sort of nuclear technological revolution is just around the corner and all the high costs are due to the "bad government regulations" anyway?

It's not semantics. Germany built its last ever coal plant several years ago and has been slowly turning them off for a while now.

What are they going to do then? Go back to candles?

I assume theyll continue to source power from the wind and the sun.