Challenges for German Energy Security in the Context of Nuclear and Coal Phase-Out
Challenges for German Energy Security in the Context of Nuclear and Coal Phase-Out

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the main challenges of Germany’s energy security (understood as security of energy supply) in the context of abandoning the use of nuclear energy and coal to produce electricity. Concerns about the maintenance of a certain level of security of energy supply have been expressed in connection with the phase-out of nuclear energy for electricity production. On the basis of selected components of the energy balance, it was shown that in the period 2011–2020 there was no deficit in electricity supplies or, more broadly, there was no “gap in the power system”. The issue of the stability of the German electricity system in the short term, i.e. in connection with the simultaneous abandonment of nuclear and coal energy, as well as instruments for maintaining the security of energy supply in the long term, were discussed.

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