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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

44] Germany will have spent $580 billion on renewables and related infrastructure by 2025, according to energy analysts at Bloomberg [45] and Germany generated 37.5 percent of its electricity from wind and solar in 2020, as compared to the 70 percent France generates from nuclear. [46] per megawatt-hour on average in 2012 to $30.42