hi luckyday,thanks for the links - guess i have to accept that...

hi luckyday,

thanks for the links - guess i have to accept that you are right and i was wrong. I am surprised, my understanding was that Germany was a net exporter of electricity, but that must have changed recently.

However we should distinguish between electricity imports, (as your referenced in your post) which could be gas, oil, coal or nuclear based and raw energy imports (mostly raw gas and oil, from Russia and others).

Also might be worthwhile to put the 50GWH/day of electricity imports in context - Germany has a diverse energy mix and uses around 600 TWH/year. The 50GWH/day is around 3% of its energy requirement.

But do agree that Germany's decision to stop nuclear on its soil is irrational, since many nuclear powerstations remain just across its borders and quite a few are of soviet design and could have less stringent safety standards the the german ones decomissioned.