jonny5
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It wouldn't matter if they did. There will be significant stretches of days where the sun won't shine and the wind won't blow anywhere in Germany, and that will lead to blackouts if there are no coal plants to back the renewables up. In fact, for every kW produced by renewables a kW of coal capacity has to be available to back it up. And in order to be available at a moment's notice the coal plants have to remain fired up all the time. That means there is very little in the way of actual reduction of emissions.
It could make up for coal in Germany though.