Context"It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy," admitted Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, on January 15 of this year. He added that: "We set ourselves a goal that we now have to correct, but we simply don't have enough energy generation capacity." Merz's long-ruling Christian Democratic Union first decided to phase out nuclear energy in 1998, reversed it in 2009, and then aggressively reinstituted it in 2011 in the wake of Fukushima. That being the transition of electricity generation, from mostly fossil fuels and nuclear, to so-called renewables. AdvertisementThe second chart tracks electricity generation in total output as well as for nuclear, fossil fuels and renewables.