Discussion: Coal, Nuclear, Renewables - A Complex Energy Story

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Nuclear phase out in Germany, but not in the UK. Coal exits at different speeds. Meanwhile citizens organise their own energy supplies.

While Germany has decided to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, the UK has included it in its planning for its future energy provision and sees it as an important instrument for meeting carbon-zero targets. The exit from coal in Germany is currently scheduled to be completed by 2038. In the UK the generation of electricity from coal is to stop in 2024, but there are also plans to open new coal mines. In Ireland the use of coal is set to end by 2025. The country has no nuclear power plants, but here nuclear energy is also discussed as a means to secure energy provision in conjunction with renewable energies. In all three countries a switch to renewable energy sources is seen as essential to reducing CO2 emissions. But is the switch happening fast enough to help stop climate change? Shouldn’t renewable energy be given immediate priority over the CO2-intensive coal and potentially dangerous and expensive nuclear energy? How are the different energy forms interconnected. Why do countries opt for different pathways?Given the complexity of these issues, would it perhaps make sense that citizens take energy provision in their own hands? Could the transition to renewable energy perhaps be accompanied by a new way of organising the way energy is produced and distributed. Could renewables make energy provision more decentralised and democratic?These and related questions will be discussed by Myriam Castanié, Strategy Manager, European Federation of Citizen Energy Cooperatives (REScoop.eu); Andy Stirling, Professor of Science &amp; Technology Policy, University of Sussex, and Timon Wehnert, Head Berlin Office and Senior Researcher, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy. We also hope that a representative of a community owned energy cooperative will join the conversation, which will be chaired by Alice Bell, Co-director of Possible. This discussion accompanies the online screening of the films The Red Line and Nuclear Forever . The films are online for free from 1 - 13 November 2021 on Goethe on Demand. Please click <a href="https://cop26.goethe-on-demand.de/movies/oeconomia" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here </a>to watch these and other films in the series <a href="https://cop26.goethe-on-demand.de/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Green Matters - Films about Climate Change and Sustainability</a>, which is part of <a href="https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/kul/new/gog.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Green Matters</a>, a programme of events by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow to coincide with COP26.

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