Germany export to France is an uninteresting information without context. Due to the energy mix the energy is exported in production peaks when it is cheap (sometimes prices are negative) and imported back when there is shortage for higher prices. Also the whole flow network needs to be taken into account and germany imports also from other countries.

You can’t currently build a reliable electric grid with wind and solar alone so you need either nuclear or fossil fuels.

>It's the result of cheap fossil fuels, provided by Russia.

So what did Germany do for heat before the wall fell and they got cheap fuels from Russia?

> So what did Germany do for heat before the wall fell and they got cheap fuels from Russia?

Germany used to be heated by gas created from coal and coal directly till about the 1960ies. Starting with the 1970ies already, the Soviet Union began delivery of natural gas.

Coal

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