I hope the show doesn't suck because the book was great and it would be such a shame if it was adapted poorly.

>Germany is going full renewables which isn't really compatible with nuclear power for simple economic reasons.

And in the meantime they shut down already built, currently running nuclear plants, which means they need to run old coal plants to makeup the lost power.

If you have a perfectly functional carbon free powerplant running right now, it seems dumb to shut it down and run coal instead while you're waiting to build out your renewables.

yup, they voted to shut down the nuclear plants, which means they have to replace them with coal in the meantime, at least until more renewables get built out.

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In the US coal is basically dead, the "coal renaissance" basically seems like a china/germany problem.

In areas where it's possible it's used a lot, the problem is that most areas aren't great places for building big dams.

I've seen lots of door to door solar salesmen offer pretty bad PPA terms, so that's where my mind went.

The only way I can think it makes sense is that they're in a PPA where the terms are such that they're paying way too much to the solar company that actually owns the panels.

Does ripping down the panels save them money somehow? did they pay for panels already and own them? Or is this some sort of lease, or even worse, a power purchase agreement?