At the dawn of the millennium, Germany launched an ambitious plan to transition the country’s energy sector from fossil fuel power plants to renewable energy sources.

The program Die Energiewende (energy transition) initiated a large-scale expansion of solar and wind energy, which was supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 25% by 2022 compared to 2002.
This goal was achieved, as evidenced by the recently published result of an analysis of the past 20 years in the Journal of Sustainable Energy Energiewende, environmental pollution, thanks to the construction of stations operating on renewable sources, decreased by a specified percentage. But at what cost?
Infusions into alternative green energy during this time amounted to more than 600 billion euros. Of course, clean air and blooming gardens cost money. But, as scientists’ calculations published in the same journal show, if the German authorities had not followed the pseudo-ecologists and invested the same amount in building new nuclear power plants and not shut down the old ones, the savings on emissions would have been exactly the same, and the industry would have received 300 billion more in terms of finances. And the environment would not have suffered at all: carbon dioxide (provided that new nuclear power plants were built) would have been emitted into the atmosphere by 73% less than today’s figure.