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You are looking at it from the heating perspective, not the electricity perspective. The 65 TW of electricity that’s used to keep the lights on have to be made up somehow (or consumption has to be reduced), and in a world with abundant natural gas, that is the easiest way to do so, since natural gas plants are pretty rampable so there is spare capacity.  Even if you weren’t planning to replace those 65 TW with electricity generated from gas, the fact that those 65 TW aren’t being decommissioned would let you reduce gas produced electricity by natural gas turbines by the natural gas equivalent of 65 TW.  Crucially, you can do that during the summer, which would let Germany build up its storage supplies (currently just north of 60% full, which they probably need to get to 80% by October).

It doesn’t exactly work this way, but about the same share of German electricity comes from natural gas as comes from nuclear.  Although you can’t totally get away from gas produced electricity (because it is so rampable, it can be titrate de to make up for the intermittency of renewables), broadly speaking, however you planned to make up for the 65 TW of nuclear power you lose, you can now use that to make up for a bunch of power you were counting no natural gas for, and use that natural gas to instead keep grandma from freezing to death.

BC

[BostonCard]

You are looking at it from the heating perspective, not the electricity perspective. The 65 TW of electricity that’s used to keep the lights on have to be made up somehow (or consumption has to be reduced), and in a world with abundant natural gas, that is the easiest way to do so, since natural gas plants are pretty rampable so there is spare capacity.  Even if you weren’t planning to replace those 65 TW with electricity generated from gas, the fact that those 65 TW aren’t being decommissioned would let you reduce gas produced electricity by natural gas turbines by the natural gas equivalent of 65 TW.  Crucially, you can do that during the summer, which would let Germany build up its storage supplies (currently just north of 60% full, which they probably need to get to 80% by October).

It doesn’t exactly work this way, but about the same share of German electricity comes from natural gas as comes from nuclear.  Although you can’t totally get away from gas produced electricity (because it is so rampable, it can be titrate de to make up for the intermittency of renewables), broadly speaking, however you planned to make up for the 65 TW of nuclear power you lose, you can now use that to make up for a bunch of power you were counting no natural gas for, and use that natural gas to instead keep grandma from freezing to death.

BC