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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by Retric on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:17AM (#35579930)
The cost of “going green” is the delta between the cost of green power and the cost of providing electricity without going green. That’s nowhere close to 500B by 2025.
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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by HyperSane on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:17AM (#35579935)
Germany has some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by Retric on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:26AM (#35579995)
Which largely spiked due to high fossil fuel prices.

Prematurely shutting down nuclear looks like a dumb decision, but Germany has been mismanaging their electric grid for decades.

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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by TheLoafOfBread on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:08AM (#35580295)
They had one of the most expensive electricity before the war.
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Re:Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle by Retric on Saturday April 15, 2023 @09:20AM (#35580395)
Retail prices were very high in Germany, but wholesale prices were quite low.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267541/germany-monthly-...

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