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- on German ministry mulls ramping up coal-fired plants to cut energy costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 3 Sep 2026
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on German ministry mulls ramping up coal-fired plants to cut energy costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
I understand your position as: Germany has expensive energy because they are stupid and abandoned nuclear power.
While abandoning nuclear power before coal was certainly a bad idea climatewise (i’m even with you calling this idiotic, thank you Merkel), coal is not more expensive than nuclear.
The 20 cent/kWh the french have on their electricity bill is not an honest price. The operator EDF is state owned and constantly loosing money the state then has to put in again, so the they also pay with taxes for their electricity.
Also the more renewables are in the mix the less economic nuclear becomes. Nuclear is good when it can run 24/7 but not when it has to constantly change its output or event has to be turned off during the day.
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on German ministry mulls ramping up coal-fired plants to cut energy costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
Coal is a fossil fuel. Gas is expensive atm because of the US/Israel war. Thats why they now want to use coal more. Its (a lot) worse for the climate, worse for health but cheaper. Actually quite capitalist of them…
Or what do you mean with fossil fuel plants? Diesel generators?
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on German ministry mulls ramping up coal-fired plants to cut energy costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 1 Sep 2026
then why does the state always have to subsidize nuclear power? dont scream at us.
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on German ministry mulls ramping up coal-fired plants to cut energy costs in c/europe@feddit.org · 1 Sep 2026
next few hundred years??? i have some bad news for you…
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on Trump says Russia is 'not going to attack' NATO territory in c/europe@feddit.org · 28 Aug 2026
now i am worried
They still are 50 billion euros in debt: www.edf.fr/en/2025-annual-results
Also they need to invest $542 billion by 2040. They have mostly 30 years old reactors which need a lot of maintenance. And they now have to compete with solar/wind.
Also see en.wikipedia.org/…/Levelized_cost_of_electricity