€16bn buys you roughly half of a 1GW nuclear reactor these days
Not necessarily. Slovenia is planning to get 1,6GW of power for that money. They included current experience (Hinkley and others) in account - but who knows.
When one looks at current state, Germany is pretty much on pollution side while France is always on the green side. Renewables can get you so far but at the same time force you to cover their power with gas/coal based power plants when sun isn’t shinning and wind isn’t blowing. Both of them are still generating plenty of CO2. Bottom line is that unless Germany comes out with plenty more of co2 free renewables and a huge energy storages (specially this is the problem, you can slap more solar panels easily), it will still emit plenty of CO2 no matter what.
Mobility is not electrified enough and there’s not enough public transit. Heating is not electrified enough.
Yea, but not really. Heating is mostly used during winter when sun isn’t as its best. And cars are mostly being charged during the night, when sun isn’t shinning either. Perhaps if hydro and wind were enough, but I doubt it they can power such at scale energy demand. OTOH if there were nuclear energy backed, then yes.
Said an EU citizen, right.