germany measured exit from nuclear power

'Defending the temporary closure of Germany's seven oldest reactors, she said the Japanese disaster meant it could no longer be "business as usual".'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12769810

'Heckled by her opponents, she said the future of energy policy would be carefully considered in the next three months, adding that changing to renewable energy would require a broad consensus.'

My personal opinion is the term 'Renewable Energy' is simply used because it's more commonly understood than 'high-efficiency low-carbon energy'. As Brendan Dow mentioned at the Annual Shareholder meeting, Germany already has 17% of it's total electricity production from Renewable Energy and they are looking to 'smoothe out' the intermittent nature of Renewable Energy with Fuel Cells (which provides a constant Base-load capacity). Germany already has first hand experience of how intermittent Renewable Energy is. Fuel Cells and Decentralised Energy are the next step forward...