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I think that page is telling a similar story to the PR:

"Primary energy production (percentage)" says 15% in Table 1 at the top, but I'm not sure how that's calculated - the whole table is as it seems to contradict the rest of the page:

- Generation by renewable sources has grown from 25% -> 40% from 2013 -> 2022 (Figure 5)

- 32 new nuclear power plants under construction in 2023 (Table 5)

- 49% of installed capacity in 2022 was renewables (Figure 6)

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Electricity generation is what the grandparent was talking about, though the actual primary energy consumption of fossil fuels is more important w.r.t. climate change.

Primary energy production includes things like domestic coal production. Primary energy consumption includes things like gas consumption by cars, imports and distribution losses.

yeah but your article is about 2021 and 2022, and the point is this stuff is changing really fast especially in the past 2 years

Nuclear is much more important than wind and solar because it provides baseload and the plants last longer than 20 years.

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