Germany's clean energy drive fails to curb dirty brown coal

[Yo_Mama]

9. In practice, their entire system has become more reliant on coal power

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/germany-to-add-most-coal-fired-plants-in-two-decades-iwr-says.html

Germany will this year start up more coal-fired power stations than at any time in the past 20 years as the country advances a plan to exit nuclear energy by 2022.

New coal plants with about 5,300 megawatts of capacity will start generating power this year, the Muenster-based IWR renewable energy institute said in an e-mailed statement today, citing data from the German regulator. About 1,000 megawatts of coal-fired capacity are expected to come offline, it said.

And I've been reading their energy plans for over a decade, and they did not anticipate this. The plan was to shift the required coal portion to higher efficiency by building new plants and shutting down old ones, but that's not happening as planned right now.

They are also adjusting their expectations as they go along:
http://www.germanenergyblog.de/?p=10156