Comments on: German wind and renewables overpower filthy lignite and hard coal in 2019 https://energytransition.org/2020/01/german-wind-and-renewables-overpower-filthy-lignite-and-hard-coal-in-2019/ The Global Energiewende Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:11:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Alan S. Drake https://energytransition.org/2020/01/german-wind-and-renewables-overpower-filthy-lignite-and-hard-coal-in-2019/#comment-17515 Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:32:15 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21587#comment-17515 In 2018, European France was Net Zero. That is net electricity exports exceeded fossil fuel generation. France is on schedule to become significantly Net Below Zero. Grenelle has seen France cut emissions from every sector, especially transportation. Building 205 km of Metro in Paris will help more.

Meanwhile Germany does very little since 2007, the year of the EU mandate. Close low carbon nuclear power & build more coal. Renewables replace gas not coal. Germany has done little to reduce transportation emissions (because of BIG car makers ?).
Energiewende talks – the French & Danes do !
See Metro & trams in Denmark as well.

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