{"id":281271,"date":"2023-09-30T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T13:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281271"},"modified":"2023-09-30T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T13:41:24","slug":"german-economics-ministry-caught-hiding-assessment-ahead-of-nuclear-phase-out-that-keeping-nuclear-plants-in-operation-would-reduce-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=281271","title":{"rendered":"German Economics Ministry caught hiding assessment, ahead of nuclear phase-out, that keeping nuclear plants in operation would reduce emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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BY\u00a0EUGYPPIUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news magazine\u00a0<\/a>Cicero\u00a0<\/a><\/em>has been locked in litigation with Robert Habeck\u2019s Ministry of Economic Affairs<\/a>, seeking the release of documents that might shed light on\u00a0the April shut-down of the final operating nuclear power plants in Germany<\/a>. Ministry officials have refused to cooperate, but yesterday a court in Berlin finally ordered them to hand over whatever they could find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that they have done so, their reasons for obstruction have become a little bit clearer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some recent history: On 7 March 2022, the Ministry published a Review of the Continued Operation of Nuclear Power Plants Due to the Ukraine War<\/a>, which made the case for completing Merkel\u2019s nuclear phase-out and shutting down the plants despite the impending energy crisis. This review concludes with a brief \u201cassessment\u201d of the implications for \u201cenergy and climate policy.\u201d If you read carefully, you\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documents Habeck\u2019s Ministry have released since the court order reveal why.\u00a0BILD has seen an earlier draft of this review<\/a>, and notes that there was a originally a third paragraph at the very end, which Ministry officials deleted before publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was here that they explained the emissions implications of phasing out nuclear power:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With regard to the reduction in CO2 emissions \u2013 sometimes used as an argument in this discussion \u2013 the approximately 30 TWh of additional nuclear electricity per year from 2024 onwards would result in about 25\u201330 million tonnes of CO2 reduction in the German electricity supply<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

EU cap-and-trade bureaucracy aside, keeping our last remaining nuclear plants in operation would have reduced German emissions four-and-a-half times more than Habeck\u2019s highly controversial and idiotic Building Energy Ordinances<\/a> are slated to save, under the most optimistic assumptions<\/a><\/em>, by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s no wonder they wanted to bury this assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>Since the nuclear phase-out, Germany has become a net electricity importer. 17.69% of our imported electricity is generated by foreign nuclear plants, mostly in France. These sources now represent more than 4% of all German power<\/a>. In other words, we are currently consuming more nuclear power than we were before we shut down our last nuclear plants at Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ladies and gentlemen, this is clown world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece\u00a0originally appeared\u00a0<\/a>on\u00a0Eugyppius\u2019s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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