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It's crazy to me that Germany still has such a dirty grid. I had a German economics professor like 20 years ago that was telling us all the aggressive actions Germany was taking to reach carbon neutrality. What happened?
Nuclear exit, Germany has a lot of lignite, which is much dirties then hard coal, then a lot of electricity exports and now Putin shut down gas, so coal is used instead. The good part is that nuclear is shut down at this point and renewable built up has picked up a lot of speed, so it is propably much cleaner now. Also important to say, that the US west coast has a pretty clean grid, which improves the entire country.
This misses the point that during the 16 years of conservative government under Chancellor Merkel the previous advances in renewable energy at best stagnated and local production capacity of wind and solar systems was massively reduced. Nuclear energy was really only ever a small part of the picture.
Thanks for the clarification.