From the article: "Siemens was responsible for building all 17 of Germany's existing nuclear power plants, according to industry body, the World Nuclear Association.

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[Chief executive Peter Loescher] also gave his backing to the German government's planned switch to renewable energy sources, calling it a "project of the century" and claiming Berlin's target of reaching 35% renewable energy by 2020 was achievable."

mk: >The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced at the end of May that all of the country's 17 nuclear reactors would be shut down by 2022.

I really find this to be surprising. I'd be curious to see how they plan to make up the lost 23% in 10 years. In the same period of time I suspect that more cars are going to be drawing power from the grid, so I'd expect a rise in demand during at the same time.

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