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Alternative systems for an energy turnaround
For those responsible only a few years remain to implement the decision taken by politics on June 11, 2011 on a gradual abandonment of nuclear energy. The last eight of the presently operated nuclear power plants have to be taken from the electricity grid in the period beginning at the end of 2017 and finalized by the 31st of December 2022. From that time at the latest, an additional about 15 % of the gross electricity output provided in Germany at present will have to be covered by electricity generated by renewable sources. A considerable proportion of this will be contributed by wind energy...
