Www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/user_upload/themen/atomkraft/Greenpeace-Studie_Atomstromimporte_Jan13_englisch.pdf. Nuclear Power in Germany. (Updated April 2014) Germany until March 2011 obtained one quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy, using 17 reactors. The figure is now about 18%.A coalition government formed after the 1998 federal elections had the phasing out of nuclear energy as a feature of its policy.
With a new government in 2009, the phase-out was cancelled, but then reintroduced in 2011, with eight reactors shut down immediately.The cost of attempting to replace nuclear power with renewables is estimated by the government to amount to some EUR 1 trillion without any assurance of a reliable outcome, and with increasing reliance on coal.Public opinion in Germany remains ambivalent and at present does not support building new nuclear plants.More than half of Germany’s electricity was generated from coal in the first half of 2013, compared with 43% in 2010.Germany has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe and some of the highest retail prices, due to its energy policies.
NB. The knock-on effects of Germany's nuclear phase-out. Bulletin: German nuclear exit delivers economic, environmental benefits. Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2011, the German government took the nation's eight oldest reactors offline immediately and passed legislation that will close the last nuclear power plant by 2022. This nuclear phase-out had overwhelming political support in Germany. Elsewhere, many saw it as "panic politics," and the online business magazine Forbes.com went as far as to ask, in a headline, whether the decision was "Insane—or Just Plain Stupid. " But a special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE, "The German Nuclear Exit," shows that the nuclear shutdown and an accompanying move toward renewable energy are already yielding measurable economic and environmental benefits, with one top expert calling the German phase-out a probable game-changer for the nuclear industry worldwide.
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Parallèlement, la production des champs en activité chutera de plus de 40 mbj à cette échéance, et la part de pétrole conventionnel dans la consommation d'or noir reculera à 65 mmillions de barils par jours, contre environ 70 mbj actuellement.