2 of the 3 currently governing parties made up the coalition that first decided to end nuclear back in 2001. The later conservative Merkel government just first extended reactor life-times just to go back on its word and shorten them again when Fukushima happened.

But all the big parties and their politicians had a hand in the current desaster, people are quit right to blame all the last 25 years' governments.

> But voters have a short term memory and will blame it all on the current administration.

Which for some countries means blaming the greens in the current government event though they were absent from previous governments from the last 15 years.

The entire concept of the "Energiewende" was implemented without putting the right constraints in place. The conservatives later fumbled it instead of adding the right changes.

What happened is that the subsidies for renewable energy in Germany mostly led to a buildup of a huge photovoltaic industry in China after an initial goldrush in Europe. When they changed the incentive scheme, the German photovoltaic industry crumbled and the chinese one was kept afloat with local subsidies.

For a while, the equipment suppliers in Europe still profited from the boom in China, but where eventually replaced by Chinese ones. In effect, now both the photovoltaic industry and the equipment industry in Europe largely disappeared.

And to add insult to injury, China is considering to limit photovoltaic exports (potentially as a means to counter the semiconductor sacntions):

https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3208206/chinas-propose...

Nuclear is the ONLY gigawatt scale dispatchable very low carbon source of electricity humans have at the moment, other than hydroelectric damns but we have used up pretty much all available capacity. If you refuse to use it then you are going to have to burn coal or gas instead. That is why Germany emits 6 times more CO2 per KWh than France.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291750/carbon-intensity...