In 2022 (https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/03...):

- 33% coal - 11% natural gas - 24% wind - 11% solar - 6% nuclear

Nuclear was already winding down with only 6% in 2022. Medium term renewables are growing and will replace it, short term coal and gas.

Wait 'till we notice that one needs giant storage capacity for an actual renewables switch too ;)

The economic potential wasted in this country over the past ~30 years by shortsighted political self-sabotage is almost hilarious.

And after 50 years of sub-replacement fertility, now we'll get wrecked even harder by what's going to happen with this graphic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/med...

Of course, it all comes so suddenly...

As a result of this Germany emits about 6 times as much CO2 per kWh as France.

Currently mostly coal (mostly lignite) with a little imported LNG for base load and peaks. Wind and solar if available. Rest is imported nuclear, coal and other power from neighboring countries.

Longer term, a switch to 100% renewables is planned, which is supposed to take 20 years. However, plans are coming along too slowly, especially regarding storage and transmission lines. But also necessary ramp-up of wind and solar installations is extremely lacking. Meanwhile power prices are at an all-time high and no betterment in sight. Meanwhile a switch to mostly-electric transportation, green steel smelting, green concrete production, and mostly electric heating should happen, which will roughly triple electricity consumption overall.

So I guess we'll wait and see, most probably more of the imported whatever-we-can-get at stellar prices.

Yeah, 100% renewable energy for such a large and developed country.

How are they gonna do it, by exterminating 50% of the population?

As it seems by getting rid of all the industry.

Lots of dirty lignite coal.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron...

Coal, Gas and Wind