Germany's moratorium on nuclear power generation will add around 25 million metric tons a year to the country's carbon dioxide emissions, which will have to be offset elsewhere by replacing coal-fired power with cleaner gas-burning plants, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
Germany's moratorium on nuclear power generation will add around 25
million metric tons a year to the country's carbon dioxide emissions, which
will have to be offset elsewhere by replacing coal-fired power with cleaner
gas-burning plants, the International Energy Agency said Friday.
The shutdown of
Germany
's
nuclear plants will take out about 50 terawatt hours of low-carbon electricity
a year, said Laszlo Varro, the head of the IEA's Gas, Coal and Power Markets
division in a telephone briefing.
Germany
is
subject to European CO2 emissions caps so this increase will need to be offset
elsewhere, he said.
"Somebody has to reduce CO2 emissions by 25 million tons," he said. This
could occur in any part of
Europe
,
because emissions allowances can be traded across borders, Varro said.
The nuclear moratorium, in response to the
Fukushima
disaster in
Japan
, will
set back the decarbonization of
Germany
's
power sector by a couple of years, he said.
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