Moral outrage won't make the economics work out.
Why do I pay 47ct/kwh in Germany while my parents pay 13ct/kwh in France ?
Germany generates more and more clean electricity while not loosing too much of its industrial sector, with a higher GDP and while getting rid of its nuclear: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-electricity?ta...
France emits less partly thanks to the dramatic reduction of its industrial sector: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-co2-embedded-in-tra...
The net difference between France and Germany isn't as high as sometimes claimed: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
How can you say it's not massive? Germany hasn't even reached the 90s levels of France yet..
France's electricity prices will either sky rocket when their paid off 70s nuclear plants finally age out or they will keep running them and open up an exciting new world of nuclear disaster risks.
Germany, meanwhile, will be sitting pretty once it has paid off the capex on its far cheaper green energy.
Well no, not really. what's preventing that is the low lifespan of renewables.
They are close to 0% of the way of their 2050 goals and will understand the meaning of exponential installation pretty soon.
The lifespan is baked into LCOE - the measure where nuclear power is 5x as expensive.
If you have 50GW of renewables installed and you have a goal of 100GW, you need to install ... 100GW.
They have to install renewables every month just to keep the existing capacity running, not even talking about expanding it.
The thing I responded to wasn't really that though, it was your peculiar conclusion they had come nowhere, 0% as you called it, towards their 2050 goals. And the reason for that was the EOL renewables that needed to be reinstalled.
Theres also very little risk to continuing to run solar panels or wind turbines past their projected lifespans whereas if you do that with a nuclear plant the risks of disaster start increasing exponentially. Germany will probably find that a lot of their green energy built today will last a lot longer than projected and this will reduce their electricity prices.