How Germany plans to phase out nuclear power and promote the breakthrough of renewable energies.

How will the energy transformation actually work?

Alternative energy sources will replace the nuclear power plants that are to be gradually switched off by the year 2022. When exactly each nuclear power station will be taken off the grid depends on the plant´s individual risk assessment and its importance to the power supply system. The Federal Network Agency is examining whether a particular nuclear plant should first be kept as a "cold reserve". To compensate for their loss of earnings, nuclear power plant operators will be exempted from payments into the Federal Government´s Energy and CLIMATE Fund. In order to close this income gap, the revenue the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT receives from the trading of emission certificates will be paid directly into the fund from 2012. The fund promotes research into renewable energies, energy storage solutions and grid technologies, electromobility and energy efficiency measures. In addition to this, it is designed to safeguard power-intensive industries and supportCLIMATE PROTECTION initiatives in developing and emerging countries as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.

How will the energy transformation actually work?

Alternative energy sources will replace the nuclear power plants that are to be gradually switched off by the year 2022. When exactly each nuclear power station will be taken off the grid depends on the plant´s individual risk assessment and its importance to the power supply system. The Federal Network Agency is examining whether a particular nuclear plant should first be kept as a "cold reserve". To compensate for their loss of earnings, nuclear power plant operators will be exempted from payments into the Federal Government´s Energy and CLIMATE Fund. In order to close this income gap, the revenue the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT receives from the trading of emission certificates will be paid directly into the fund from 2012. The fund promotes research into renewable energies, energy storage solutions and grid technologies, electromobility and energy efficiency measures.

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