What? Germany is a net exporter of electricity[1] - this was in 2022 and the trend is that net exports will increase this year. France (65% nuclear) imports more electricity from Germany than it exports to Germany.
I don't understand why this lie about Germany is repeated so regularly on here and yet is so easy to google/check.
German wholesale prices are pretty much bang in the middle of European average which is what you'd expect given the high level of integration between each country's domestic market and the large amount of capacity for import/export and the liberalised nature of the markets (liberalised by EU decree in 2008).
There was a huge spike last Summer but it was caused not by a domestic shift in German supply and demand but by the fact that over 50% of French nuclear capacity went offline in August/September which meant France needed to import huge amounts of electricity from its neighbours (primarily Germany) which pushed up wholesale prices across much of Europe.
You can be a big exporter - and Germany is the biggest electricity exporter in the world[1] (like the US is of natural gas for example) but this doesn't prevent domestic prices from responding to external prices.
Germany has essentially replaced nuclear 1:1 with renewables (mostly wind).
Unfortunately, even though they've been building renewables in a seriously impressive way, they could have also had nuclear at the same time.
The root issue was completely ceasing construction of a fixed-lifetime generating resource in 1983+ that accounted for ~25% of a country's energy mix, with the majority built in the 1970s.
But I'm going to take some convincing to decide that +375 TWh of stable, baseload electrical power wouldn't have helped the German (and European) economy.
I don't understand why this lie about Germany is repeated so regularly on here and yet is so easy to google/check.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-...