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German Government Caught Hiding Assessment That Keeping Nuclear Plants Open Would Sharply Reduce CO2 Emissions

by Eugyppius
27 September 2023 7:05 PM

The news magazine Cicero has been locked in litigation with Robert Habeck’s Ministry of Economic Affairs, seeking the release of documents that might shed light on the April shut-down of the final operating nuclear power plants in Germany. Ministry officials have refused to cooperate, but yesterday a court in Berlin finally ordered them to hand over whatever they could find.

Now that they have done so, their reasons for obstruction have become a little bit clearer.

Some recent history: On March 7th 2022, the Ministry published a ‘Review of the Continued Operation of Nuclear Power Plants Due to the Ukraine War‘, which made the case for completing Merkel’s nuclear phase-out and shutting down the plants despite the impending energy crisis. This review concludes with a brief “assessment” of the implications for “energy and climate policy”. If you read carefully, you’ll notice a strange thing: the two paragraphs which follow this heading abound with remarks on energy production, but say basically nothing about climate or emissions.

The documents Habeck’s Ministry have released since the court order reveal why. BILD has seen an earlier draft of this review, and notes that there was a originally a third paragraph at the very end, which Ministry officials deleted before publication.

It was here that they explained the emissions implications of phasing out nuclear power (emphasis added):

With regard to the reduction in CO2 emissions – sometimes used as an argument in this discussion – the approximately 30 TWh of additional nuclear electricity per year from 2024 onwards would result in about 2,530 million tonnes of CO2 reduction in the German electricity supply. Yet there would be no European-wide CO2 savings, as the energy industry is subject to EU emissions trading and the cap in the EU-ETS is set independently of a possible lifetime extension [for nuclear plants] in Germany.

EU cap-and-trade bureaucracy aside, keeping Germany’s last remaining nuclear plants in operation would have reduced German emissions four-and-a-half times more than Habeck’s highly controversial and idiotic Building Energy Ordinances are slated to save, under the most optimistic assumptions, by 2030.

It’s no wonder they wanted to bury this assessment.

Furthermore, since the nuclear phase-out, Germany has become a net electricity importer: 17.69% of its imported electricity is generated by foreign nuclear plants, mostly in France. These sources now represent more than 4% of all German power. In other words, the country is currently consuming more nuclear power than it was before it shut down its last nuclear plants at Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is clown world.

This piece originally appeared on Eugyppius’s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.

Tags: Carbon dioxideGermanyNet ZeroNuclear power

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