Germany has been getting about 35% of its gas from Russia. In this year’s first quarter, nuclear energy accounted for 6% of Germany’s electricity generation and natural gas for 13%, both significantly lower than a year earlier. Germany shut down three nuclear reactors in December and the remaining three are due to cease production at the end of this year as part of a long-running plan to phase out conventional power plants in favor of renewable energy. “We have a heating problem or an industry problem, but not an electricity problem - at least not generally throughout the country.” “Nuclear power doesn’t help us there at all,” Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy and climate minister and is responsible for energy, said at a news conference in Vienna. There’s some sympathy for that position in the ranks of the pro-business Free Democrats, the smallest party in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition.īut government officials argue that natural gas isn’t so much a factor in generating electricity as in fueling industrial processes and providing heating. Germany’s main opposition party has called repeatedly for the country’s last three nuclear reactors to be kept online after the end of December amid fears that Russia may halt natural gas supplies entirely. Snowfall May through October are months without snowfall. Especially during heat waves in summer, the night-time minimum temperature frequently stays above 20 C in Austrian cities, which reduces the capability of. Throughout the year, there are 88 rainfall days, and 547.9mm (21.57') of precipitation is accumulated. Rainfall In Vienna, in May, it is raining for 8.3 days, with typically 60.9mm (2.4') of accumulated precipitation. BERLIN (AP) - Germany’s vice chancellor on Tuesday defended the government’s commitment to ending the use of nuclear power at the end of this year, arguing that keeping its few remaining reactors running would be complex and do little to address the problems caused by a possible natural gas shortfall. In May, the average low-temperature is 12.5C (54.5F).
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