Germany's nuclear pullout 'could cost every household in Europe'

摘要

Germany's decision to close its nuclear power plants by 2022 will set back efforts to decarbonise the electricity supply by 10 crucial years and could prove expensive for every household in Europe, an article in New Scientist magazine says. The article, by David Strahan, says the German government has "admirable" plans to raise renewable electricity to 35 per cent of consumption by 2020. But even this planned increase falls five per cent short of filling the hole in zero-carbon electricity left by abandoning nuclear.