GERMANY NUCLEAR PHASE-OUT CRITICISED BY IEA
June 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris has called on Germany to reconsider its decision to phase-out nuclear power within 15 years, warning it could hit the country's economy, its security of energy supply and its greenhouse gas emissions record. In a largely laudatory country report on German energy policy, the IEA singled out the nuclear decision for criticism. As regards CO2 emissions the agency said: "While additional renewables capacity, along with energy efficiency gains, could certainly make up some of the resulting gap, there will ...
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