> The decision to shut down our nuclear reactors came from a conservative government, where the greens were in the opposition.

Wrong. The nuclear phase-out original came from SPD/Greens:

> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomkonsens

> The prices have not been rising due to the shutdown of our nuclear plants, but due to price gauging by electrical companies, and due to russia falling away as a cheap gas supplier.

They have not been rising since last month, but that's not really a reliable statistics.

After all, the German Ministry of Economics is working on a law to subsidize electricity prices for the industry. They wouldn't do that if electricity was cheap.

> Nuclear only made up 5% of our energy production 2023 and 11% in 2021, with ~4.3Gw and ~8.5Gw respectively. Germany installed 7.2Gw of PV and ~2.4Gw of Wind in 2022. Replacing our entire nuclear capacity with renewables within a single year.

Nuclear provides baseload, wind and solar don't.

In fact, since 2022, Germany returned 19 coal-fired power units with a capacity of 7.3 GW to the electricity market:

> https://www.smard.de/home/rueckkehr-von-kohlekraftwerken-an-...

> The conservative government of the last 20 years spend an insane amount of effort to stop renewables by limiting the yearly installed PV capacity by law, and introducing NIMBY friendly limitations on where wind turbines can be build, bloating the documents required for clearance from a couple dozen pages to a full binder.

That's non-sense. Germany built more wind and solar capacity per capita the past 20 years than any other country in the world.

Even one of the strongest EE lobbyists in Germany, Volker Quaschning, admitted that:

> https://twitter.com/VQuaschning/status/1626149341730639872

> The conservative government were also the ones starting the NordStream projects and overseeing their construction. They are directly culpable for our dependence on russia.

That's a blatant lie. That project was started by SPD/Greens and the Greens even defended it against criticism:

> https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/15/15186.pdf (p. 10)

> https://www.stern.de/wirtschaft/news/nord-stream-juergen-tri...

> https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/russland-juergen-...

> The greens have to spend a lot of effort on reversing those legislations, and they had to do this in addition to handling the Ukraine crisis, and while constantly fighting a conservative/neoliberal party that is part of the government but has made it their stated goal to sabotage everything the greens propose. (They are basically a lobby arm of the german car industry, with several scandals.)

The Greens have always been fighting nuclear in Germany. So much, that they even preferred subsidizing coal:

> https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/10/014/1001407.pdf

> https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/11/056/1105633.pdf

> The fact that they managed to push for this much renewable energy, and for this much energy independence is a small miracle tbh.

What energy independence? Are you aware of the fact that the current coalition has new gas plants in their coalition agreement:

> https://www.bundesregierung.de/resource/blob/974430/1990812/... (p. 58)

And the Greens even have it in their election program:

> https://cms.gruene.de/uploads/documents/Wahlprogramm-DIE-GRU... (p. 24)

And even the government's own planning agency for the energy transition is projecting that we need lots of gas power plants:

> https://www.dena.de/fileadmin/dena/Dokumente/Pdf/9262_dena-L... (p. 29)

> Also if the conservatives hadn't sabotaged our "Energiewende" and had guided our car industry towards EV, we wouldn't have the issues you pointed out.

The only parties that have sabotaged Germany's electricity grid and climate goals are the Greens with their owngoing FUD campaigns against nuclear power.

I'm really surprised how one can put so much disinformation into a single comment post.