Nuclear phase-out: Germany faces ‘Herculean’ task with move to renewables

Article forms part of a FT: Special Report 'Energy 2011'. The accelerated nuclear phase-out in Germany – brought forward from 2036 to 2022 after the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan in 2011 – challenged the country to replace its 17 nuclear power stations, which produce about a quarter of its total electricity, in just over a decade, while at the same time reconfiguring transmission networks. Can Germany achieve this?